Abstract
Favism uniquely arises from a genetic defect of the Glucose-6 Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PD) enzyme and results in a severe reduction of erythrocytes’ (RBCs) reducing power that impairs the cells’ ability to respond to oxidative stresses. After exposure to fava beans or a few other drugs, the patients experience acute hemolytic anemia due to RBCs’ lysis both intra and extra-vascularly. In the present paper, we compared selected biochemical, biophysical, and ultra-morphological properties of normal RBCs and cells from favism patients measured along cellular aging. Along the aging path, the cells’ characteristics change, and their structural and functional properties degrade for both samples, but with different patterns and effectors that have been characterized in biophysical and biochemical terms. In particular, the analysis revealed distinct metabolic regulation in G6DP-deficient cells that determines important peculiarities in the cell properties during aging. Remarkably, the initial higher fragility and occurrence of structural/morphological alterations of favism cells develop, with longer aging times, into a stronger resistance to external stresses and higher general resilience. This surprisingly higher endurance against cell aging has been related to a special mechanism of metabolic regulation that permits lower energy consumption in environmental stress conditions. Our results provided a direct and coherent link between the RBCs’ metabolic regulation and the cell properties that would not have been possible to establish without an investigation performed during aging. The consequences of this new knowledge, in particular, can be discussed in a more general context, such as understanding the role of the present findings in determining the characteristics of the favism pathology as a whole.
Funder
Bulgarian National Science Fund
Italian CNR
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Subject
Inorganic Chemistry,Organic Chemistry,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,Computer Science Applications,Spectroscopy,Molecular Biology,General Medicine,Catalysis
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