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SUBMITTER: Weinstock C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8832213 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie 20220113 1
In 2014, the membrane-bound protein CD59 became a blood group antigen. CD59 has been known for decades as an inhibitor of the complement system, located on erythrocytes and on many other cell types. In paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH), a stem cell clone with acquired deficiency to express GPI-anchored molecules, including the complement inhibitor CD59, causes severe and life-threatening disease. The lack of CD59, which is the only membrane-bound inhibitor of the membrane attack complex ...[more]