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Borders on the "magic" callout (see "help" under meta), simply because you are not spelling out how you will accomplish what you propose. |
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Perhaps others with more bio background will come along and speculate appropriately, so I'm rooting for this good cause. |
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Actually, the A/B/O blood grouping is determined not by
proteins, but by sugar molecules stuck to the proteins on
the surface of the red blood cells. |
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However, the basic idea is completely sound. In fact, I am
pretty sure that people have looked into glycosylases (sugar-
cleaving enzymes) to, effectively, convert all bloods to type
''O". |
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[normzone]
Yeah, I was afraid of that. Unfortunately I'm still a
student (and a new one at that) so the
super-specifics of this would be beyond me, though
now that I think about it, a competitive inhibitor
could work. Another protein akin to an antibody
that binds to the marker proteins ahead of time and
blocks anything else from binding to them, it would
probably be easier than stripping them off the cell. |
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//Actually, the A/B/O blood grouping is determined
not by proteins, but by sugar molecules stuck to the
proteins on the surface of the red blood cell// |
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[MB] My inexperience shines through again. |
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Just google "blood type conversion" and you'll find
plenty of references to using glycosylases (specifically,
galactosidases, which cleave off a particular type of sugar
molecule) for exactly this purpose. See link for example. |
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Postscript, your idea was pretty much spot-on (apart from
referring to proteins versus sugar groups), so a [+] even
though baked. |
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