Erythroblast enucleation at a glance.

J Cell Sci

Department of Biochemistry and Chemistry, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3073, Australia.

Published: October 2024

Erythroid enucleation, the penultimate step in mammalian erythroid terminal differentiation, is a unique cellular process by which red blood cells (erythrocytes) remove their nucleus and accompanying nuclear material. This complex, multi-stage event begins with chromatin compaction and cell cycle arrest and ends with generation of two daughter cells: a pyrenocyte, which contains the expelled nucleus, and an anucleate reticulocyte, which matures into an erythrocyte. Although enucleation has been compared to asymmetric cell division (ACD), many mechanistic hallmarks of ACD appear to be absent. Instead, enucleation appears to rely on mechanisms borrowed from cell migration, endosomal trafficking and apoptosis, as well as unique cellular interactions within the microenvironment. In this Cell Science at a Glance article and the accompanying poster, we summarise current insights into the morphological features and genetic drivers regulating the key intracellular events that culminate in erythroid enucleation and engulfment of pyrenocytes by macrophages within the bone marrow microenvironment.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11529606PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jcs.261673DOI Listing

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