The "sweet" side of a long pentraxin: How glycosylation affects PTX3 functions in innate immunity and inflammation

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 3, Issue JAN, 2013, Pages

  Inforzato, Antonio ^a   Reading, Patrick C ^b,c   Barbati, Elisa ^a   Bottazzi, Barbara ^a   Garlanda, Cecilia ^a   Mantovani, Alberto ^a,d  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Glycosylation; Inflammation; Pathogen recognition; Pentraxins; PTX3

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874230650     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2012.00407     Document Type: Article

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