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To define the quality and relative quantity of beta and alpha messenger RNA in human nonthalassemic and thalassemic reticulocytes, intact cells were incubated with [(35)S]methionine. The relative amounts of beta- and alpha-nascent chains on polysomes of different sizes were measured by tryptic digestion of pooled polysomes and by determination of the specific activities of beta and alpha peptides that contain methionine. Betachain synthesis predominated on heavy polysomes in nonthalassemic, as well as in thalassemic cells. Since beta chains in thalassemia are made on normal-size polyribosomes, we conclude that the defect in thalassemia does not involve reduction in the rate of initiation of translation due to the production of an abnormal beta message. Such would lead to beta-chain synthesis on very small polysomes. We therefore suggest that the decreased production of beta-globin chains results from a decreased amount of functional beta-globin messenger RNA.

Beta Thalassemia and Translation of Globin Messenger RNA