Nevertheless, the ability to phagocytose apoptotic cells and to support VLP infection was enhanced when hTIM1 mucin domain was introduced to mTIM1 with the PE-binding head domain (36L37F-mTIM1-hMucin, Fig. 8C, E and 9B) but not when it was introduced to mTIM1 with the WT head domain (mTIM1-hMucin, Fig. 8B, D and 9A). Here, MUC5AC is linked to infection.