PTX3, a humoral pattern recognition molecule, in innate immunity, tissue repair, and cancer

C Garlanda, B Bottazzi, E Magrini… - Physiological …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Innate immunity includes a cellular and a humoral arm. PTX3 is a fluid-phase pattern
recognition molecule conserved in evolution which acts as a key component of humoral …

The long pentraxin PTX3 as a link between innate immunity, tissue remodeling, and cancer

A Doni, M Stravalaci, A Inforzato, E Magrini… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The innate immune system comprises a cellular and a humoral arm. Humoral pattern
recognition molecules include complement components, collectins, ficolins, and pentraxins …

Macrophage expression and prognostic significance of the long pentraxin PTX3 in COVID-19

E Brunetta, M Folci, B Bottazzi, M De Santis, G Gritti… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Long pentraxin 3 (PTX3) is an essential component of humoral innate immunity,
involved in resistance to selected pathogens and in the regulation of inflammation,–. The …

[HTML][HTML] PTX3 modulates the immunoflogosis in tumor microenvironment and is a prognostic factor for patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma

GS Netti, G Lucarelli, F Spadaccino… - Aging (Albany …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Pentraxin-3 (PTX3) belongs to the pentraxine family, innate immune regulators
involved in angiogenesis, proliferation and immune escape in cancer. Here, we evaluated …

Serine/threonine kinase MLK4 determines mesenchymal identity in glioma stem cells in an NF-κB-dependent manner

SH Kim, R Ezhilarasan, E Phillips, D Gallego-Perez… - Cancer cell, 2016 - cell.com
Activation of nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) induces mesenchymal (MES) transdifferentiation and
radioresistance in glioma stem cells (GSCs), but molecular mechanisms for NF-κB activation …

The basic characteristics of the pentraxin family and their functions in tumor progression

Z Wang, X Wang, H Zou, Z Dai, S Feng… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The pentraxin is a superfamily of proteins with the same domain known as the pentraxin
domain at C-terminal. This family has two subgroups, namely; short pentraxins (C-reactive …

Cancer cell-derived long pentraxin 3 (PTX3) promotes melanoma migration through a toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)/NF-κB signaling pathway

M Rathore, C Girard, M Ohanna, M Tichet… - Oncogene, 2019 - nature.com
Cutaneous melanoma is one of the most aggressive cancers characterized by a high
plasticity, a propensity for metastasis, and drug resistance. Melanomas are composed of …

Innate immunity, inflammation and tumour progression: double‐edged swords

A Mantovani, A Ponzetta, A Inforzato… - Journal of internal …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Components of the cellular and the humoral arm of the immune system are essential
elements of the tumour microenvironment (TME). The TME includes tumour‐associated …

Long pentraxin 3: A novel multifaceted player in cancer

A Giacomini, GC Ghedini, M Presta, R Ronca - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2018 - Elsevier
Since its discovery in 1992, long pentraxin 3 (PTX3) has been characterized as soluble
patter recognition receptor, a key player of the innate immunity arm with non-redundant …

Extracellular vesicles in the biology of brain tumour stem cells–Implications for inter-cellular communication, therapy and biomarker development

I Nakano, D Garnier, M Minata, J Rak - Seminars in cell & developmental …, 2015 - Elsevier
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) act as carriers of molecular and oncogenic signatures present in
subsets of tumour cells and tumour-associated stroma, and as mediators of intercellular …