Pentraxins (PTX), also known as pentaxins, are an evolutionary conserved family of proteins characterised by containing a pentraxin protein domain. Proteins...
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(C-polysaccharide) of pneumococcus. It is a member of the small pentraxins family (also known as short pentraxins). The polypeptide encoded by this gene has 224 amino...
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and CR4 on phagocytes. Mannose-binding lectins, or ficolins, along with pentraxins and collectins are able to recognize certain types of carbohydrates that...
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formation and ligand recognition by the long pentraxin PTX3. Similarities and differences with the short pentraxins C-reactive protein and serum amyloid P component"...
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distant relative to the "long" pentraxins such as PTX3 (a cytokine-modulated molecule) and several neuronal pentraxins. Both SAP and CRP are evolutionary...
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neuronal pentraxin I". Kirkpatrick LL, Matzuk MM, Dodds DC, Perin MS (2000). "Biochemical interactions of the neuronal pentraxins. Neuronal pentraxin (NP)...
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capacity, lower activity of the complement system, and a different set of pentraxins involved in the inflammatory process; and lack genes for important components...
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needed. C1q can also be activated in other ways, for example by binding to pentraxins such as C-reactive protein or directly to the surface of pathogens. Such...
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G-like and amino-terminal thrombospondin-like modules based on homology to pentraxins". Journal of Molecular Biology. 275 (5): 725–730. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1997...
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Neuronal pentraxin-2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NPTX2 gene. This gene encodes a member of the family of neuronal pentraxins, synaptic...
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cell that produces them. Complement receptors, collectins, ficolins, pentraxins such as serum amyloid and C-reactive protein, lipid transferases, peptidoglycan...
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Perin MS (2000). "Biochemical interactions of the neuronal pentraxins. Neuronal pentraxin (NP) receptor binds to taipoxin and taipoxin-associated calcium-binding...
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capacity, lower activity of the complement system, and a different set of pentraxins involved in the inflammatory process; and lack genes for important components...
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debris for removal. The 3 major groups found in serum include complement, pentraxins, and antibodies. However, only complement has shown to help in myelin...
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localise to sites of inflammation in retinal tissues (e.g. by polyanions and pentraxins) and to regulate the activation of complement and immune cells. The SNP...
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deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), calreticulin, annexin A1, histones and pentraxin-3 (PTX3). The most well characterised eat-me signal is the phospholipid...
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formation and ligand recognition by the long pentraxin PTX3. Similarities and differences with the short pentraxins C-reactive protein and serum amyloid P component"...
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are able to protect the body from potential pathogens. Together with pentraxins, collectins and C1q molecules, ficolins constitute the soluble pattern-recognition...
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Perin MS (June 2000). "Biochemical interactions of the neuronal pentraxins. Neuronal pentraxin (NP) receptor binds to taipoxin and taipoxin-associated calcium-binding...
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capacity, lower activity of the complement system, and a different set of pentraxins involved in the inflammatory process; and lack genes for important components...
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railway station (rail code: PTX) Guancheng Hui, Zhengzhou, Henan, China Pentraxin, a protein domain and family Paclitaxel, an anticancer drug Pertussis...
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G-like and amino-terminal thrombospondin-like modules based on homology to pentraxins". J. Mol. Biol. 275 (5): 725–30. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1997.1510. PMID 9480764...
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galectins are usually observed as dimers, while intelectins form trimers and pentraxins assemble into pentamers. Larger structures, like hexameric Reg proteins...
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Perin MS (2000). "Biochemical interactions of the neuronal pentraxins. Neuronal pentraxin (NP) receptor binds to taipoxin and taipoxin-associated calcium-binding...
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C3b which help to opsonize the apoptotic cells, also thrombospondin, pentraxins (C-reactive protein and serum amyloid P), β2GP1, MFG-E8 and GAS-6 are...
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pioneered work on the structure, function and clinical applications of the pentraxins, C-reactive protein (CRP) and serum amyloid P component (SAP), and identified...
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neuromodulatory factors prostaglandin D2 synthase (PTGDS) and neuronal pentraxin 2 (NPTX2). This is regulated by NG2, whose intracellular domain can be...
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associated molecules such as aggrecan, versican, thrombospondin (1&2), pentraxin-3 and fibronectin. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000123610 – Ensembl...
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gene encodes the protein Usherin that contains laminin EGF motifs, a pentraxin domain, and many fibronectin type III motifs. The encoded basement membrane-associated...
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Semra Doğru‐Abbasoğlu, and Pervin Vural. "Serum Visfatin, Fetuin‐A, and Pentraxin 3 Levels in Patients with Psoriasis and Their Relation to Disease Severity"...
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