Lactotransferrin gene functional polymorphisms do not influence susceptibility to human immunodeficiency virus-1 mother-to-child transmission in different ethnic groups

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Luisa Zupin¹  Vania Polesello¹  Antonio Victor Campos Coelho¹  Michele Boniotto¹  Luiz Claudio Arraes¹  Ludovica Segat/¹  Sergio Crovella¹ 

关键词: AIDS;    HIV-1;    innate immunity;    lactoferrin;    SNPs;    vertical transmission;   

DOI  :  10.1590/0074-02760140447

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Lactotransferrin, also known as lactoferrin, is an iron binding glycoprotein that displays antiviral activity against many different infectious agents, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1. Lactotransferrin is present in the breast milk and in the female genitourinary mucosa and it has been hypothesised as a possible candidate to prevent mother-to-child HIV-1 transmission. To verify if two functional polymorphisms, Thr29Ala and Arg47Lys, in the lactotransferrin encoding gene (LTF) could affect HIV-1 infection and vertical transmission, a preliminary association study was performed in 238 HIV-1 positive and 99 HIV-1 negative children from Brazil, Italy, Africa and India. No statistically significant association for the Thr29Ala and Arg47Lys LTF polymorphisms and HIV-1 susceptibility in the studied populations was found. Additionally LTF polymorphisms frequencies were compared between the four different ethnic groups.

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