[HTML][HTML] Molecular insight into pentraxin-3: Update advances in innate immunity, inflammation, tissue remodeling, diseases, and drug role

H Zhang, R Wang, Z Wang, W Wu, N Zhang… - Biomedicine & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Pentraxin-3 (PTX3) is the prototype of the long pentraxin subfamily, an acute-phase
protein consisting of a C-terminal pentraxin domain and a unique N-terminal domain. PTX3 …

Lung fibroblasts facilitate pre-metastatic niche formation by remodeling the local immune microenvironment

Z Gong, Q Li, J Shi, J Wei, P Li, CH Chang, LD Shultz… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Primary tumors are drivers of pre-metastatic niche formation, but the coordination by the
secondary organ toward metastatic dissemination is underappreciated. Here, by single-cell …

PTX3 regulation of inflammation, hemostatic response, tissue repair, and resolution of fibrosis favors a role in limiting idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

A Doni, A Mantovani, B Bottazzi, RC Russo - Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
PTX3 is a soluble pattern recognition molecule (PRM) belonging to the humoral innate
immune system, rapidly produced at inflammatory sites by phagocytes and stromal cells in …

A single-cell transcriptional roadmap of the mouse and human lymph node lymphatic vasculature

M Xiang, RA Grosso, A Takeda, J Pan… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Single-cell transcriptomics promise to revolutionize our understanding of the vasculature.
Emerging computational methods applied to high-dimensional single-cell data allow …

Extracellular vesicles from human iPSC-derived neural stem cells: miRNA and protein signatures, and anti-inflammatory and neurogenic properties

R Upadhya, LN Madhu, S Attaluri… - Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Grafting of neural stem cells (NSCs) derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells
(hiPSCs) has shown promise for brain repair after injury or disease, but safety issues have …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptional space-time mapping identifies concerted immune and stromal cell patterns and gene programs in wound healing and cancer

KH Hu, NF Kuhn, T Courau, J Tsui, B Samad, P Ha… - Cell stem cell, 2023 - cell.com
Tissue repair responses in metazoans are highly coordinated by different cell types over
space and time. However, comprehensive single-cell-based characterization covering this …

Chemotherapy-induced upregulation of small extracellular vesicle-associated PTX3 accelerates breast cancer metastasis

CA Wills, X Liu, L Chen, Y Zhao, CM Dower… - Cancer research, 2021 - AACR
Although neoadjuvant chemotherapy is a standard component of breast cancer treatment,
recent evidence suggests that chemotherapeutic drugs can promote metastasis through …

Vasculature atrophy causes a stiffened microenvironment that augments epidermal stem cell differentiation in aged skin

R Ichijo, K Maki, M Kabata, T Murata, A Nagasaka… - Nature Aging, 2022 - nature.com
Stem cell loss causes tissue deterioration associated with aging. The accumulation of
genomic and oxidative stress-induced DNA damage is an intrinsic cue for stem cell loss,; …

PacBio Iso-Seq improves the rainbow trout genome annotation and identifies alternative splicing associated with economically important phenotypes

A Ali, GH Thorgaard, M Salem - Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Rainbow trout is an important model organism that has received concerted international
efforts to study the transcriptome. For this purpose, short-read sequencing has been …

Structural insights into the biological functions of the long pentraxin PTX3

AM Massimino, FE Colella, B Bottazzi… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Soluble pattern recognition molecules (PRMs) are a heterogenous group of proteins that
recognize pathogen-and danger-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs and DAMPs …