TRANSFUSION MEDICINE The human Pk histo-blood group antigen provides protection against HIV-1 infection
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1Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON; 2Canadian Blood Services, Toronto, ON; 3Division of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University & University Hospital Blood Centre, Lund, Sweden; 4Magen David Adom National Blood Services, Ramat Gan, Israel; 5Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON; 6Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, Toronto General Research Institute of the University Health Network, Toronto, ON; 7Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON; 8Héma-Québec Research & Development, Québec, QC; 9Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry, Laval University, Québec, QC; and 10Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
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The human P(k) histo-blood group antigen provides protection against HIV-1 infection.
Several human histo-blood groups are glycosphingolipids, including P/P1/P(k). Glycosphingolipids are implicated in HIV-host-cell-fusion and some bind to HIV-gp120 in vitro. Based on our previous studies on Fabry disease, where P(k) accumulates and reduces infection, and a soluble P(k) analog that inhibits infection, we investigated cell surface-expressed P(k) in HIV infection. HIV-1 infection o...
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