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Role of hemichrome binding to erythrocyte membrane in the generation of band-3 alterations in beta-thalassemia intermedia erythrocytes.
Blood - 1 Sept 1995
Mannu F, Arese P, Cappellini M D, Fiorelli G, Cappadoro M, Giribaldi G, Turrini F
Abstract excerpt
Nine splenectomized, hematologically well-compensated beta-thalassemia intermedia patients randomly chosen from a pool of 60 similar patients were studied. Membrane proteins solubilized with nondenaturing detergent C12E8 were gel filtered on Sepharose CL-6B (Pharmacia Fine Chemicals, Uppsala, Sweden). Fractions containing higher than 4,000-kD molecular-weight aggregates were isolated and analyzed. Four patients...
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