Factor H and Neisserial pathogenesis [PDF]
Vaccine, 2008 Both Neisseria gonorrhoeae and N. meningitidis bind to factor H which enhances their ability to evade complement-dependent killing. While porin is the ligand for human fH on gonococci, meningococci use a lipoprotein called factor H binding protein (fHbp) to bind to factor H and enhance their ability to evade complement-dependent killing.
Jo Anne, Welsch, Sanjay, Ram
openaire +2 more sources
The effect of human factor H on immunogenicity of meningococcal native outer membrane vesicle vaccines with over-expressed factor H binding protein. [PDF]
PLoS Pathogens, 2012 The binding of human complement inhibitors to vaccine antigens in vivo could diminish their immunogenicity. A meningococcal ligand for the complement down-regulator, factor H (fH), is fH-binding protein (fHbp), which is specific for human fH.
Peter T Beernink +5 more
doaj +1 more source
Anti-factor H antibody and its role in atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome
Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) an important form of a thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) that can frequently lead to acute kidney injury (AKI). An important subset of aHUS is the anti-factor H associated aHUS.
Rupesh Raina +8 more
doaj +1 more source
CLONING OF THE 1.4-kb mRNA SPECIES OF HUMAN COMPLEMENT FACTOR H REVEALS A NOVEL MEMBER OF THE SHORT CONSENSUS REPEAT FAMILY RELATED TO THE CARBOXY TERMINAL OF THE CLASSICAL 150-kDa MOLECULE [PDF]
, 1991 Three factor H mRNA species of 4.3 kb, 1.8 kb, and 1.4 kb are constitutively expressed in human liver. Having previously characterized full-length cDNA clones derived from the 4.3-kb and 1.8-kb factor mRNA, we report here the isolation and eucaryotic ...
Dierich, Manfred P. +4 more
core +2 more sources
Complement Factor H-Related Protein 4A Is the Dominant Circulating Splice Variant of CFHR4
Frontiers in Immunology, 2018 Recent research has elucidated circulating levels of almost all factor H-related (FHR) proteins. Some of these proteins are hypothesized to act as antagonists of the important complement regulator factor H (FH), fine-tuning complement regulation on human
Richard B. Pouw +8 more
doaj +1 more source
Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 Recombinant human factor H (hFH) has potential for treating diseases linked to aberrant complement regulation including C3 glomerulopathy (C3G) and dry age-related macular degeneration.
Heather Kerr +18 more
doaj +1 more source
Properdin and factor H: Opposing players on the alternative complement pathway "see-saw" [PDF]
, 2013 This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.Properdin and factor H are two key regulatory proteins having opposite functions in the alternative complement pathway.
Abdul-Aziz, M +5 more
core +1 more source
H. pylori virulence factors [PDF]
British Medical Bulletin, 1998 Among people infected with Helicobacter pylori, the virulence of the infecting strain is a major determinant of who develops disease. Strains producing vacuolating cytotoxin activity are more commonly isolated from people with peptic ulcers than without.
openaire +2 more sources
Supersymmetry and Gravitational Quadrupoles [PDF]
, 1999 We derive model independent, non-perturbative supersymmetric sum rules for the gravitational quadrupole moments of arbitrary-spin particles in any N=1 supersymmetric theory.
Cucchieri +15 more
core +2 more sources
Counting Smooth Solutions to the Equation A+B=C [PDF]
, 2011 This paper studies integer solutions to the Diophantine equation A+B=C in which none of A, B, C have a large prime factor. We set H(A, B,C) = max(|A|, |B|, |C|), and consider primitive solutions (gcd}(A, B, C)=1) having no prime factor p larger than (log
Lagarias, J. C., Soundararajan, K.
core +2 more sources