In addition, while the same study also confirmed the role of Glut-1 in productive infection of T-cells after contact with HTLV-1 viral biofilm, it failed to demonstrate the need of NRP-1, suggesting that the proposed interaction of HTLV-1 envelop with NRP-1 as prerequisite before interaction with Glut-1 (Lambert et al., 2009) might not be mandatory when virions are embedded in biofilm and not cell-free. The gene discussed is SLC2A1; the disease is infection.