title: On the chromatographic heterogeneity of human fetal hemoglobin.
abstract: Minor fetal hemoglobins in red cell hemolysates of newborn and adults with elevated levels of Hb F have been separated and quantitated by Biorex 70 column chromatography. In addition to Hb F1, other minor hemoglobin zones eluting before F1, pre-F1, and after F1, post-f1 have been observed. The relative amounts of the two pre-F1 zones and F1 are higher in the red cells of adults with 97--100% Hb F (homozygous hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin, homozygous deltabeta-thalassemia and homozygous beta0-thalassemia) than in the red cells of an adult with homozygous beta+-thalassemia with 66% Hb F, a child with a trisomy-D-13 having 38% Hb F, and in two newborn. Hb F was glycosylated in vitro with [14C]glucose or [14C] glucose 6-phosphate, and was acetylated using chicken reticulocyte lysate or a crude acetyltransferase preparation isolated from the same lysate with [14C]acetyl-CoA as substrate. Chromatographic analyses indicated that the Hb F1 zone can be formed both by glycosylation and acetylation of Hb F, and that pre-F1 zones can be products of the reaction of Hb F with phosphorylated glycolytic intermediates. Biosynthesis of minor hemoglobins in reticulocytes was studied with [14C]leucine in the presence and absence of cycloheximide and by pulse-chase. The resulting data indicate that Hb F1 synthesis is dependent upon Hb F synthesis and that the posttranslational modification may take place at an early stage in Hb F synthesis.
mesh_terms: D000107:Acetylation; D000123:Acetyltransferases / Q000097:blood; D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens; D005319:Fetal Hemoglobin / Q000378:metabolism; D005947:Glucose; D005958:Glucosephosphates; D006720:Homozygote; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D012156:Reticulocytes / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism; D013789:Thalassemia / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D005958:Glucosephosphates; D005319:Fetal Hemoglobin; D000123:Acetyltransferases; D005947:Glucose