Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Rivella Lab

Publications

Akchurin O, Sureshbabu A, Doty SB, Zhu YS, Patino E, Cunningham-Rundles S, Choi ME, Boskey AL, Rivella S. Lack of Hepcidin Ameliorates Anemia and Improves Growth in an Adenine-induced Mouse Model of Chronic Kidney Disease. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2016 Jul 20. PMID:27440777

Casu C, Oikonomidou PR, Chen H, Nandi V, Ginzburg Y, Prasad P, Fleming RE, Shah YM, Valore EV, Nemeth E, Ganz T, MacDonald B, Rivella S. Minihepcidin peptides as disease modifiers in mice affected by β-thalassemia and polycythemia vera. Blood. 2016 Jul 14;128(2):265-76. PMID:27154187

Breda L, Motta I, Lourenco S, Gemmo C, Deng W, Rupon JW, Abdulmalik OY, Manwani D, Blobel GA, Rivella S. Forced chromatin looping raises fetal hemoglobin in adult sickle cells to higher levels than pharmacologic inducers. Blood. 2016 Jul 12. PMID:27405777

Oikonomidou PR, Casu C, Yang Z, Crielaard B, Shim JH, Rivella S, Vogiatzi MG. Polycythemia is associated with bone loss and reduced osteoblast activity in mice. Osteoporos Int. 2016 Apr;27(4):1559-68. PMID:26650379

Oikonomidou PR, Casu C, Rivella S. New strategies to target iron metabolism for the treatment of beta thalassemia. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2016 Mar;1368(1):162-8. PMID:26919168

Chen H, Choesang T, Li H, Sun S, Pham P, Bao W, Feola M, Westerman M, Li G, Follenzi A, Blanc L,Rivella S, Fleming RE, Ginzburg YZ. Increased hepcidin in transferrin-treated thalassemic mice correlates with increased liver BMP2 expression and decreased hepatocyte ERK activation. Haematologica. 2016 Mar;101(3):297-308. PMID:26635037

Engert A, Balduini C, Brand A, Coiffier B, Cordonnier C, Döhner H, de Wit TD, Eichinger S, Fibbe W, Green T, de Haas F, Iolascon A, Jaffredo T, Rodeghiero F, Salles G, Schuringa JJ; EHA Roadmap for European Hematology Research. The European Hematology Association Roadmap for European Hematology Research: a consensus document. Haematologica. 2016 Feb;101(2):115-208. PMID:26819058

Casu C, Aghajan M, Oikonomidou PR, Guo S, Monia BP, Rivella S. Combination of Tmprss6- ASO and the iron chelator deferiprone improves erythropoiesis and reduces iron overload in a mouse model of beta-thalassemia intermedia.Haematologica. 2016 Jan;101(1). PMID:26405152

Valdés-Ferrer SI, Papoin J, Dancho ME, Olofsson P, Li J, Lipton JM, Avancena P, Yang H, Zou YR, Chavan SS, Volpe BT, Gardenghi S, Rivella S, Diamond B, Andersson U, Steinberg BM, Blanc L, Tracey KJ. HMGB1 mediates anemia of inflammation in murine sepsis survivors. Mol Med. 2015 Dec 29. PMID:26736178

Das N, Xie L, Ramakrishnan SK, Campbell A, Rivella S, Shah YM. Intestine-specific Disruption of Hypoxia-inducible Factor (HIF)-2α Improves Anemia in Sickle Cell Disease. J Biol Chem. 2015 Sep 25;290(39):23523-7. PMID:26296885

Guimarães JS, Cominal JG, Silva-Pinto AC, Olbina G, Ginzburg YZ, Nandi V, Westerman M, Rivella S, de Souza AM. Altered erythropoiesis and iron metabolism in carriers of thalassemia. Eur J Haematol. 2015 Jun;94(6):511-8. PMID:25307880

Rivella S. β-thalassemias: paradigmatic diseases for scientific discoveries and development of innovative therapies.Haematologica. 2015 Apr;100(4):418-30. PMID:25828088

Bystrom LM, Rivella S. Cancer cells with irons in the fire. Free Radic Biol Med. 2015 Feb;79:337-42. PMID:24835768

Breveglieri G, Mancini I, Bianchi N, Lampronti I, Salvatori F, Fabbri E, Zuccato C, Cosenza LC, Montagner G, Borgatti M, Altruda F, Fagoonee S, Carandina G, Rubini M, Aiello V, Breda L, Rivella S, Gambari R, Finotti A. Generation and Characterization of a Transgenic Mouse Carrying a Functional Human β -Globin Gene with the IVSI-6 Thalassemia Mutation. Biomed Res Int. 2015;2015:687635. PMID:26097845

Yien YY, Gnanapragasam MN, Gupta R, Rivella S, Bieker JJ. Alternative splicing of EKLF/KLF1 in murine primary erythroid tissues. Exp Hematol. 2015 Jan;43(1):65-70. PMID:25283745

Finotti A, Breda L, Lederer CW, Bianchi N, Zuccato C, Kleanthous M, Rivella S, Gambari R. Recent trends in the gene therapy of β-thalassemia. J Blood Med. 2015 Feb 19;6:69-85. PMID:25737641

Casu C, Rivella S. Iron age: novel targets for iron overload. Hematology Am Soc Hematol Educ Program. 2014 Dec 5;2014(1):216-21. PMID:25696858

Zhang X, Campreciós G, Rimmelé P, Liang R, Yalcin S, Mungamuri SK, Barminko J, D'Escamard V, Baron MH, Brugnara C, Papatsenko D, Rivella S, Ghaffari S. FOXO3-mTOR metabolic cooperation in the regulation of erythroid cell maturation and homeostasis. Am J Hematol. 2014 Oct;89(10):954-63. PMID:24966026

Deng W, Rupon JW, Krivega I, Breda L, Motta I, Jahn KS, Reik A, Gregory PD, Rivella S, Dean A, Blobel GA. Reactivation of developmentally silenced globin genes by forced chromatin looping. Cell. 2014 Aug 14;158(4):849-60. PMID:25126789

Kautz L, Jung G, Valore EV, Rivella S, Nemeth E, Ganz T. Identification of erythroferrone as an erythroid regulator of iron metabolism. Nat Genet. 2014 Jul;46(7):678-84. PMID:24880340

Suragani RN, Cawley SM, Li R, Wallner S, Alexander MJ, Mulivor AW, Gardenghi S, Rivella S, Grinberg AV, Pearsall RS, Kumar R.Modified activin receptor IIB ligand trap mitigates ineffective erythropoiesis and disease complications in murine β-thalassemia. Blood. 2014 Jun 19;123(25):3864-72. PMID:24795345

Martin L, Grigoryan A, Wang D, Wang J, Breda L, Rivella S, Cardozo T, Gardner LB. Identification and characterization of small molecules that inhibit nonsense-mediated RNA decay and suppress nonsense p53 mutations. Cancer Res. 2014 Jun 1;74(11):3104-13. PMID:24662918

Crielaard BJ, Rivella S. β-Thalassemia and Polycythemia vera: targeting chronic stress erythropoiesis. Int J Biochem Cell Biol. 2014 Jun;51:89-92. PMID:24718374

Bystrom LM, Guzman ML, Rivella S. Iron and reactive oxygen species: friends or foes of cancer cells? Antioxid Redox Signal. 2014 Apr 20;20(12):1917-24. PMID:23198911

Coe LM, Madathil SV, Casu C, Lanske B, Rivella S, Sitara D. FGF-23 is a negative regulator of prenatal and postnatal erythropoiesis. J Biol Chem. 2014 Apr 4;289(14):9795-810. PMID:24509850

Breda L, Rivella S. Modulators of erythropoiesis: emerging therapies for hemoglobinopathies and disorders of red cell production. Hematol Oncol Clin North Am. 2014 Apr;28(2):375-86. PMID:24589272

Gardenghi S, Renaud TM, Meloni A, Casu C, Crielaard BJ, Bystrom LM, Greenberg-Kushnir N, Sasu BJ, Cooke KS, Rivella S.Distinct roles for hepcidin and interleukin-6 in the recovery from anemia in mice injected with heat-killed Brucella abortus.Blood. 2014 Feb 20;123(8):1137-45. PMID:24357729

Rivella S. Enucleate or replicate? Ask the cytoskeleton. Blood. 2014 Jan 30;123(5):601-2. PMID:24482493

Anderson ER, Taylor M, Xue X, Ramakrishnan SK, Martin A, Xie L, Bredell BX, Gardenghi S, Rivella S, Shah YM. Intestinal HIF2α promotes tissue-iron accumulation in disorders of iron overload with anemia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Dec 10;110(50):E4922-30. PMID:24282296

Richardson CL, Delehanty LL, Bullock GC, Rival CM, Tung KS, Kimpel DL, Gardenghi S, Rivella S, Goldfarb AN. Isocitrate ameliorates anemia by suppressing the erythroid iron restriction response. J Clin Invest. 2013 Aug;123(8):3614-23. PMID:23863711

Breda L, Rivella S, Zuccato C, Gambari R. Combining gene therapy and fetal hemoglobin induction for treatment of β-thalassemia. Expert Rev Hematol. 2013 Jun;6(3):255-64. PMID:23782080

Musallam KM, Rivella S, Vichinsky E, Rachmilewitz EA. Non-transfusion-dependent thalassemias. Haematologica. 2013 Jun;98(6):833-44. PMID:23729725

Guo S, Casu C, Gardenghi S, Booten S, Aghajan M, Peralta R, Watt A, Freier S, Monia BP, Rivella S. Reducing TMPRSS6 ameliorates hemochromatosis and β-thalassemia in mice. J Clin Invest. 2013 Apr;123(4):1531-41. PMID:23524968

Ramos P, Casu C, Gardenghi S, Breda L, Crielaard BJ, Guy E, Marongiu MF, Gupta R, Levine RL, Abdel-Wahab O, Ebert BL, Van Rooijen N, Ghaffari S, Grady RW, Giardina PJ, Rivella S. Macrophages support pathological erythropoiesis in polycythemia vera and β-thalassemia. Nat Med. 2013 Apr;19(4):437-45. PMID:23502961

Dong A, Rivella S, Breda L.Gene therapy for hemoglobinopathies: progress and challenges. Transl Res. 2013 Apr;161(4):293-306. PMID: 23337292

Casanovas G, Vujić Spasic M, Casu C, Rivella S, Strelau J, Unsicker K, Muckenthaler MU. The murine growth differentiation factor 15 is not essential for systemic iron homeostasis in phlebotomized mice.

Haematologica. 2013 Mar;98(3):444-7. PMID: 22983584

Zuccato C, Breda L, Salvatori F, Breveglieri G, Gardenghi S, Bianchi N, Brognara E, Lampronti I, Borgatti M, Rivella S, Gambari R. A combined approach for β-thalassemia based on gene therapy-mediated adult hemoglobin (HbA) production and fetal hemoglobin (HbF) induction. Ann Hematol. 2012 Aug;91(8):1201-13. PMID: 22460946

Wang L, Rosenberg JB, De BP, Ferris B, Wang R, Rivella S, Kaminsky SM, Crystal RG. In vivo gene transfer strategies to achieve partial correction of von Willebrand disease. Hum Gene Ther. 2012 Jun;23(6):576-88. PMID: 22482515

Rivella S. Do not super-excess me! Blood. 2012 May 31;119(22):5064-5. PMID: 22653953

Kobayashi H, Gilbert V, Liu Q, Kapitsinou PP, Unger TL, Rha J, Rivella S, Schlöndorff D, Haase VH. Myeloid cell-derived hypoxia-inducible factor attenuates inflammation in unilateral ureteral obstruction-induced kidney injury. J Immunol. 2012 May 15;188(10):5106-15. PMID: 22490864

Rivella S. The role of ineffective erythropoiesis in non-transfusion-dependent thalassemia. Blood Rev. 2012 Apr;26 Suppl 1:S12-5. PMID: 22631035

Parrow NL, Gardenghi S, Ramos P, Casu C, Grady RW, Anderson ER, Shah YM, Li H, Ginzburg YZ, Fleming RE, Rivella S. Decreased hepcidin expression in murine β-thalassemia is associated with suppression of Bmp/Smad signaling. Blood. 2012 Mar 29;119(13):3187-9. PMID:22461476

Breda L, Casu C, Gardenghi S, Bianchi N, Cartegni L, Narla M, Yazdanbakhsh K, Musso M, Manwani D, Little J, Gardner LB, Kleinert DA, Prus E, Fibach E, Grady RW, Giardina PJ, Gambari R, Rivella S. Therapeutic hemoglobin levels after gene transfer in β-thalassemia mice and in hematopoietic cells of β-thalassemia and sickle cells disease patients. PLoS One. 2012;7(3):e32345. PMID: 22479321

Ginzburg Y, Rivella S. β-thalassemia: a model for elucidating the dynamic regulation of ineffective erythropoiesis and iron metabolism. Blood. 2011 Oct 20;118(16):4321-30. PMID:21768301

Parrow NL, Gardenghi S, Rivella S. Prospects for a hepcidin mimic to treat β-thalassemia and hemochromatosis. Expert Rev Hematol. 2011 Jun;4(3):233-5. PMID: 21668388

Ramos P, Guy E, Chen N, Proenca CC, Gardenghi S, Casu C, Follenzi A, Van Rooijen N, Grady RW, de Sousa M, Rivella S.Enhanced erythropoiesis in Hfe-KO mice indicates a role for Hfe in the modulation of erythroid iron homeostasis. Blood. 2011 Jan 27;117(4):1379-89. PMID: 21059897

Gardenghi S, Grady RW, Rivella S. Anemia, ineffective erythropoiesis, and hepcidin: interacting factors in abnormal iron metabolism leading to iron overload in β-thalassemia. Hematol Oncol Clin North Am. 2010 Dec;24(6):1089-107. PMID: 21075282

Gardenghi S, Ramos P, Marongiu MF, Melchiori L, Breda L, Guy E, Muirhead K, Rao N, Roy CN, Andrews NC, Nemeth E, Follenzi A, An X, Mohandas N, Ginzburg Y, Rachmilewitz EA, Giardina PJ, Grady RW, Rivella S. Hepcidin as a therapeutic tool to limit iron overload and improve anemia in β-thalassemic mice. J Clin Invest. 2010 Dec;120(12):4466-77. PMID: 21099112

Nasimuzzaman M, Khandros E, Wang X, Kong Y, Zhao H, Weiss D, Rivella S, Weiss MJ, Persons DA. Analysis of alpha hemoglobin stabilizing protein overexpression in murine β-thalassemia. Am J Hematol. 2010 Oct;85(10):820-2. PMID: 20815047

Gardenghi S, Ramos P, Follenzi A, Rao N, Rachmilewitz EA, Giardina PJ, Grady RW, Rivella S. Hepcidin and Hfe in iron overload in beta-thalassemia. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2010 Aug;1202:221-5. PMID: 20712796

Breda L, Kleinert DA, Casu C, Casula L, Cartegni L, Fibach E, Mancini I, Giardina PJ, Gambari R,Rivella S. A preclinical approach for gene therapy of beta-thalassemia. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2010 Aug;1202:134-40. PMID: 20712784

Ramos P, Melchiori L, Gardenghi S, Van-Roijen N, Grady RW, Ginzburg Y, Rivella S. Iron metabolism and ineffective erythropoiesis in beta-thalassemia mouse models. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2010 Aug;1202:24-30. PMID: 20712768

Vogiatzi MG, Tsay J, Verdelis K, Rivella S, Grady RW, Doty S, Giardina PJ, Boskey AL. Changes in bone microarchitecture and biomechanical properties in the th3 thalassemia mouse are associated with decreased bone turnover and occur during the period of bone accrual. Calcif Tissue Int. 2010 Jun;86(6):484-94. PMID: 20449578

Rivella S, Nemeth E, Miller JL. Crosstalk between Erythropoiesis and Iron Metabolism. Adv Hematol. 2010;2010. pii: 317095. PMID: 20862206

Melchiori L, Gardenghi S, Rivella S. beta-Thalassemia: HiJAKing Ineffective Erythropoiesis and Iron Overload.

Adv Hematol. 2010;2010:938640. PMID:20508726

Rivella S, Rachmilewitz E. Future alternative therapies for β-thalassemia. Expert Rev Hematol. 2009 Dec 1;2(6):685. PMID: 20174612

Chan AS, Jensen KK, Skokos D, Doty S, Lederman HK, Kaplan RN, Rafii S, Rivella S, Lyden D. Id1 represses osteoclast-dependent transcription and affects bone formation and hematopoiesis. PLoS One. 2009 Nov 24;4(11):e7955. PMID:19956687

Breda L, Gambari R, Rivella S. Gene therapy in thalassemia and hemoglobinopathies. Mediterr J Hematol Infect Dis. 2009 Nov 13;1(1):e2009008. PMID:21415990

Salvatori F, Breveglieri G, Zuccato C, Finotti A, Bianchi N, Borgatti M, Feriotto G, Destro F, Canella A, Brognara E, Lampronti I, Breda L, Rivella S, Gambari R. Production of beta-globin and adult hemoglobin following G418 treatment of erythroid precursor cells from homozygous beta(0)39 thalassemia patients. Am J Hematol. 2009 Nov;84(11):720-8. PMID:19810011

Biagioli M, Pinto M, Cesselli D, Zaninello M, Lazarevic D, Roncaglia P, Simone R, Vlachouli C, Plessy C, Bertin N, Beltrami A, Kobayashi K, Gallo V, Santoro C, Ferrer I, Rivella S, Beltrami CA, Carninci P, Raviola E, Gustincich S.

Unexpected expression of alpha- and beta-globin in mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons and glial cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Sep 8;106(36):15454-9. PMID:19717439

Salvatori F, Cantale V, Breveglieri G, Zuccato C, Finotti A, Bianchi N, Borgatti M, Feriotto G, Destro F, Canella A, Breda L, Rivella S, Gambari R. Development of K562 cell clones expressing beta-globin mRNA carrying the beta039 thalassaemia mutation for the screening of correctors of stop-codon mutations. Biotechnol Appl Biochem. 2009 Jul 9;54(1):41-52. PMID: 19216718

Rivella S. Ineffective erythropoiesis and thalassemias. Curr Opin Hematol. 2009 May;16(3):187-94. PMID:19318943

Rechavi G, Rivella S. Regulation of iron absorption in hemoglobinopathies. Curr Mol Med. 2008 Nov;8(7):646-62. Review. PMID:18991651

Libani IV, Guy EC, Melchiori L, Schiro R, Ramos P, Breda L, Scholzen T, Chadburn A, Liu Y, Kernbach M, Baron-Lühr B, Porotto M, de Sousa M, Rachmilewitz EA, Hood JD, Cappellini MD, Giardina PJ, Grady RW, Gerdes J, Rivella S. Decreased differentiation of erythroid cells exacerbates ineffective erythropoiesis in beta-thalassemia. Blood. 2008 Aug 1;112(3):875-85. PMID:18480424

Pinto JP, Ramos P, de Almeida SF, Oliveira S, Breda L, Michalak M, Porto G, Rivella S, de Sousa M. Protective role of calreticulin in HFE hemochromatosis. Free Radic Biol Med. 2008 Jan 1;44(1):99-108. PMID:18045552

Gardenghi S, Marongiu MF, Ramos P, Guy E, Breda L, Chadburn A, Liu Y, Amariglio N, Rechavi G, Rachmilewitz EA, Breuer W, Cabantchik ZI, Wrighting DM, Andrews NC, de Sousa M, Giardina PJ, Grady RW, Rivella S. Ineffective erythropoiesis in beta-thalassemia is characterized by increased iron absorption mediated by down-regulation of hepcidin and up-regulation of ferroportin. Blood. 2007 Jun 1;109(11):5027-35. PMID:17299088

Sadelain M, Boulad F, Galanello R, Giardina P, Locatelli F, Maggio A, Rivella S, Riviere I, Tisdale J. Therapeutic options for patients with severe beta-thalassemia: the need for globin gene therapy. Hum Gene Ther. 2007 Jan;18(1):1-9. PMID:17173507

Weizer-Stern O, Adamsky K, Amariglio N, Levin C, Koren A, Breuer W, Rachmilewitz E, Breda L,Rivella S, Cabantchik ZI, Rechavi G.Downregulation of hepcidin and haemojuvelin expression in the hepatocyte cell-line HepG2 induced by thalassaemic sera. Br J Haematol. 2006 Oct;135(1):129-38. PMID:16939499

Weizer-Stern O, Adamsky K, Amariglio N, Rachmilewitz E, Breda L, Rivella S, Rechavi G. mRNA expression of iron regulatory genes in beta-thalassemia intermedia and beta-thalassemia major mouse models. Am J Hematol. 2006 Jul;81(7):479-83. PMID:16755567

Breda L, Gardenghi S, Guy E, Rachmilewitz EA, Weizer-Stern O, Adamsky K, Amariglio N, Rechavi G, Giardina PJ, Grady RW, Rivella S. Exploring the role of hepcidin, an antimicrobial and iron regulatory peptide, in increased iron absorption in beta-thalassemia. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2005;1054:417-22. PMID:16339690

Rachmilewitz EA, Weizer-Stern O, Adamsky K, Amariglio N, Rechavi G, Breda L, Rivella S, Cabantchik ZI. Role of iron in inducing oxidative stress in thalassemia: Can it be prevented by inhibition of absorption and by antioxidants? Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2005;1054:118-23. Review. PMID:16339657

Sadelain M, Lisowski L, Samakoglu S, Rivella S, May C, Riviere I. Progress toward the genetic treatment of the beta-thalassemias. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2005;1054:78-91. PMID:16339654

Sadelain M, Rivella S, Lisowski L, Samakoglu S, Rivière I. Globin gene transfer for treatment of the beta-thalassemias and sickle cell disease. Best Pract Res Clin Haematol. 2004 Sep;17(3):517-34. PMID:15498721

Adamsky K, Weizer O, Amariglio N, Breda L, Harmelin A, Rivella S, Rachmilewitz E, Rechavi G. Decreased hepcidin mRNA expression in thalassemic mice. Br J Haematol. 2004 Jan;124(1):123-4. PMID:14675418