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Insights Into the Emergence of Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria.
Frontiers in immunology - 1 Jan 2021
Colden Melissa A, Kumar Sushant, Munkhbileg Bolormaa, Babushok Daria V
Abstract excerpt
Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH) is a disease as simple as it is complex. PNH patients develop somatic loss-of-function mutations in phosphatidylinositol N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase subunit A gene (PIGA), required for the biosynthesis of glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchors. Ubiquitous in eukaryotes, GPI anchors are a group of conserved glycolipid molecules responsible for attaching nearly 150...
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