Kumamoto University
Natural killer cells are immunoselected that lack stress-inducible ULBP
Published in Law and Health Weekly, March 4th, 2006
"The mechanism by which paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) clones expand is unknown. PNH clones harbor PIGA mutations and do not synthesize glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI), resulting in deficiency of GPI-linked membrane proteins," wrote N. Hanaoka and colleagues, Kumamoto University.
"GPI-deficient blood cells often expand in patients with aplastic anemia who sustain immune-mediated marrow injury putatively induced by cytotoxic cells, hence suggesting that the injury allows PNH clones to expand selectively....
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