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Complement regulator CD46: genetic variants and disease associations.
Human genomics - 10 Jun 2015
Liszewski M Kathryn, Atkinson John P
Abstract excerpt
Membrane cofactor protein (MCP; CD46) is an ubiquitously expressed complement regulatory protein that protects host cells from injury by complement. This type-I membrane glycoprotein serves as a cofactor for the serine protease factor I to mediate inactivation of C3b and C4b deposited on host cells. More than 60 disease-associated mutations in MCP have now been identified. The majority of the mutations are linked...
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