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Immunoselection by natural killer cells of PIGA mutant cells missing stress-inducible ULBP.
Blood - 1 Feb 2006
Hanaoka Nobuyoshi, Kawaguchi Tatsuya, Horikawa Kentaro, Nagakura Shoichi, Mitsuya Hiroaki, Nakakuma Hideki
Abstract excerpt
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. 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...
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