Japanese researchers found a mechanism of leukemic virus infection
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Last Update: 2015-02-05
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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Researchers at Kyoto University have found a mechanism for leukaemia virus infection, which will help to develop related therapies in the future, a public newspaper said Friday HTLV-1 only infects mature T lymphocytes After analysis, the researchers found that the expression of two proteins in infected cells was significantly reduced, and the two proteins could play a role in inhibiting the replication of HTLV-1 The researchers believe that HTLV-1 will target mature T-lymphocytes as an infection target because these two proteins are highly expressed in immature T-lymphocytes of the thymus, but very low in mature T-lymphocytes of the terminal Human T lymphocytic leukemia virus (HTLV) has been proved to be closely related to adult T lymphocytic leukemia and a variety of neurological diseases It mainly infects infants through breast milk With the growth of infants, it will cause adult T-lymphocytic leukemia, which is mainly prevalent in Japan, Central Africa and South America Relevant papers have been published in the new edition of the Journal of the National Academy of Sciences (reporter LAN Jianzhong)
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