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SUBMITTER: Fluckiger R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5884443 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Flückiger Rudolf R Cocuzzi Enzo E Nagaraj Ram H RH Shoham Menachem M Kern Timothy S TS Medof M Edward ME
Molecular immunology 20170905
Decay accelerating factor (DAF or CD55) is a cell associated C3 and C5 convertase regulator originally described in terms of protection of self-cells from systemic complement but now known to modulate adaptive T cell responses. It is expressed on all cell types. We investigated whether nonenzymatic glycation could impair its function and potentially be relevant to complications of diabetes mellitus and other conditions that result in nonenzymatic glycation including cancer, Alzheimer's disease, ...[more]