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Elevated plasma levels of high mobility group box protein 1 in patients with HIV-1 infection
Piotr Nowak1, Babilonia Barqasho, Anders Sönnerborg
1Divisions of Clinical Virology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
AIDS (London, England)
|April 7, 2007
Abstract:
High mobility group box protein 1 (HMGB1) is a potent proinflammatory mediator. It has a dichotomic effect on HIV-1 replication in vitro but its role in vivo is unknown. Here we report the novel finding that plasma HMGB1 levels are elevated in HIV-1-infected patients, with the highest concentrations in patients with clinical complications. HMGB1 is likely to contribute to immunoactivation in HIV-1 infection in vivo.

