A primate subfamily of galectins expressed at the maternal-fetal interface that promote immune cell death

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 9731-9736

  Than, Nandor Gabor ^a   Romero, Roberto ^a,b   Goodman, Morris ^b   Weckle, Amy ^a,b   Xing, Jun ^a,b   Dong, Zhong ^a   Xu, Yi ^a   Tarquini, Federica ^a   Szilagyi, Andras ^b   Gal, Peter ^b   Hou, Zhuocheng ^b   Tarca, Adi L ^a   Chong, Jai Kim ^a,c   Kim, Jung Sun ^a,c   Haidarian, Saied ^b   Uddin, Monica ^b   Bohn, Hans ^d   Benirschke, Kurt ^e   Santolaya Forgas, Joaquin ^f   Grossman, Lawrence I ^a,b   Erez, Offer ^a,b   Hassan, Sonia S ^a,b   Zavodszky, Peter ^b   Papp, Zoltan ^g   Wildman, Derek E ^a,b   more..

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ENZYMOLOGY   (Hungary)

^d Behringwerke AG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Glycocode; Maternal fetal immune tolerance; PP13; Preeclampsia

Indexed keywords

GALECTIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CHROMOSOME 19; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MATERNAL BLOOD; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOGENE; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 19; FEMALE; GALECTINS; HUMANS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PREGNANCY; PRIMATES; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

PRIMATES; SIMIIFORMES;

EID: 67649841949     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903568106     Document Type: Article

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