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Antonio Victor Campos Coelho1, Lucas André Cavalcanti Brandão, Rafael Lima Guimarães
1Department of Genetics, Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, PE, Brazil.
Abstract:
Variations in genes involved in the immune response pathways may influence the interaction between viruses (such as Human T-lymphotropic virus, HTLV-1) and the host. The mannose binding lectin (MBL) and its associated serine protease type 2 (MASP-2) promote the activation of the lectin pathway of the complement system. As the interaction of complement system with HTLV-1 is not well understood, the MBL2 promoter/exon 1 polymorphisms and a MASP2 missense polymorphism were examined in a Northeast Brazilian population, looking for a possible relationship between these variations and the susceptibility to HTLV-1 infection. The present study describes an association between a polymorphism in the MASP2 gene and susceptibility to HTLV-1 infection, and provides further evidence of an association between the MBL2 gene and HTLV-1 infection. These findings suggest an important role of the complement system activation, via the lectin pathway, in the susceptibility to HTLV-1 infection.
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