Eculizumab treatment: stochastic occurrence of C3 binding to individual PNH erythrocytes [PDF]
C5 blockade by eculizumab prevents complement-mediated intravascular hemolysis in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH). However, C3-bound PNH red blood cells (RBCs), arising in almost all treated patients, may undergo extravascular hemolysis ...
A Hill +64 more
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Functional and antigenic properties of complement receptor type 2, CR2
This is the first report demonstrating that C3d receptor (CR2) has functional activity in regulating complement cascade. Purified CR2 was examined for its cofactor activity in factor I-mediated cleavage of membrane-bound iC3b. CR2 plus C3b inactivator (I)
Katsuyuki Mitomo, T. Fujita, Kyoko 1 Ida
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Solubilization of immune precipitates by six isolated alternative pathway proteins
Immune precipitates were solubilized by the alternative pathway of complement assembled from isolated proteins, i.e., C3, factor B, factor D, properdin, C3b inactivator (C3bINA), and beta 1H.
Fujita Teizo, Takata Yuko, Tamura Noboru
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The disease-protective complement factor H allotypic variant Ile62 shows increased binding affinity for C3b and enhanced cofactor activity [PDF]
38 p.- 7 fig.Mutations and polymorphisms in the gene encoding factor H (CFH) have been associated with atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome, dense deposit disease and age-related macular degeneration.
de Cordoba, Santiago Rodriguez +5 more
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Downsizing a human inflammatory protein to a small molecule with equal potency and functionality [PDF]
A significant challenge in chemistry is to rationally reproduce the functional potency of a protein in a small molecule, which is cheaper to manufacture, non-immunogenic, and also both stable and bioavailable.
A Ghassemian +44 more
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Complement Split Product C5a Mediates the Lipopolysaccharide‐Induced Mobilization of Cfu‐S and Haemopoietic Progenitor Cells, But Not the Mobilization Induced By Proteolytic Enzymes [PDF]
. Intravenous (i.v.) injection of mice with lipopolysaccharide (LPS), and the proteolytic enzymes trypsin and proteinase, mobilizes pluripotent haemopoietic stem cells (CFU‐s) as well as granulocyte‐macrophage progenitor cells (GM‐CFU) and the early ...
Benner R. +25 more
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Elastase-alpha1-proteinase inhibitor complex [PDF]
Bergmeyer, H. U. +4 more
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The pathophysiology of the complement system in leprosy [PDF]
The complement system, which consists of a group of proteins and glycoproteins, generally serves to amplify the effects of the interaction of antigen with antibody.
Ramanathan, V D
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Complement system and alcoholic liver disease [PDF]
Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is a well recognized and growing health problem worldwide. ALD advances from fatty liver to inflammation, necrosis, fibrosis and cirrhosis.
Bykov, Igor
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