Ex vivo glycan engineering of the surface of live cells has been used to enforce HCELL expression on any cell that expresses CD44. CD44 glycosylation also directly controls its binding capacity to fibrin and immobilized fibrinogen.

Clinical significance

The protein is a determinant for the Indian blood group system.
* CD44, along with CD25, is used to track early T cell development in the thymus.

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