Pentraxins (PTX), also known as pentaxins, are an evolutionary conserved family of proteins characterised by containing a pentraxin protein domain. Proteins...

(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...

and CR4 on phagocytes. Mannose-binding lectins, or ficolins, along with pentraxins and collectins are able to recognize certain types of carbohydrates that...

formation and ligand recognition by the long pentraxin PTX3. Similarities and differences with the short pentraxins C-reactive protein and serum amyloid P component"...

distant relative to the "long" pentraxins such as PTX3 (a cytokine-modulated molecule) and several neuronal pentraxins. Both SAP and CRP are evolutionary...

neuronal pentraxin I". Kirkpatrick LL, Matzuk MM, Dodds DC, Perin MS (2000). "Biochemical interactions of the neuronal pentraxins. Neuronal pentraxin (NP)...

capacity, lower activity of the complement system, and a different set of pentraxins involved in the inflammatory process; and lack genes for important components...

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...

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...

cell that produces them. Complement receptors, collectins, ficolins, pentraxins such as serum amyloid and C-reactive protein, lipid transferases, peptidoglycan...

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...

Perin MS (2000). "Biochemical interactions of the neuronal pentraxins. Neuronal pentraxin (NP) receptor binds to taipoxin and taipoxin-associated calcium-binding...

capacity, lower activity of the complement system, and a different set of pentraxins involved in the inflammatory process; and lack genes for important components...

debris for removal. The 3 major groups found in serum include complement, pentraxins, and antibodies. However, only complement has shown to help in myelin...

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...

deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), calreticulin, annexin A1, histones and pentraxin-3 (PTX3). The most well characterised eat-me signal is the phospholipid...

formation and ligand recognition by the long pentraxin PTX3. Similarities and differences with the short pentraxins C-reactive protein and serum amyloid P component"...

are able to protect the body from potential pathogens. Together with pentraxins, collectins and C1q molecules, ficolins constitute the soluble pattern-recognition...

Perin MS (June 2000). "Biochemical interactions of the neuronal pentraxins. Neuronal pentraxin (NP) receptor binds to taipoxin and taipoxin-associated calcium-binding...

capacity, lower activity of the complement system, and a different set of pentraxins involved in the inflammatory process; and lack genes for important components...

railway station (rail code: PTX) Guancheng Hui, Zhengzhou, Henan, China Pentraxin, a protein domain and family Paclitaxel, an anticancer drug Pertussis...

galectins are usually observed as dimers, while intelectins form trimers and pentraxins assemble into pentamers. Larger structures, like hexameric Reg proteins...

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...

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...

pioneered work on the structure, function and clinical applications of the pentraxins, C-reactive protein (CRP) and serum amyloid P component (SAP), and identified...

Perin MS (2000). "Biochemical interactions of the neuronal pentraxins. Neuronal pentraxin (NP) receptor binds to taipoxin and taipoxin-associated calcium-binding...

neuromodulatory factors prostaglandin D2 synthase (PTGDS) and neuronal pentraxin 2 (NPTX2). This is regulated by NG2, whose intracellular domain can be...

associated molecules such as aggrecan, versican, thrombospondin (1&2), pentraxin-3 and fibronectin. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000123610 – Ensembl...

gene encodes the protein Usherin that contains laminin EGF motifs, a pentraxin domain, and many fibronectin type III motifs. The encoded basement membrane-associated...

Semra Doğru‐Abbasoğlu, and Pervin Vural. "Serum Visfatin, Fetuin‐A, and Pentraxin 3 Levels in Patients with Psoriasis and Their Relation to Disease Severity"...