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Erythrophagocytosis and its relation to band 3 clustering in chronic myelogenous leukemia

A K Das1, A K Sinha, J Basu

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Bose Institute, Calcutta, India.

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology International
|March 1, 1997
PubMed

Band 3, a major erythrocyte membrane glycoprotein, undergoes topographic redistribution leading to enhanced clustering, in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). This is probably due to the binding of heme compounds to the CML erythrocyte membrane resulting from depletion of cellular levels of reduced glutathione (GSH). Band 3 clustering appears to be one of the factors associated with increased erythrophagocytosis in CML.

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