Receptor immunoglobulin

Immunoglobulin receptors, such as the high affinity receptor for IgE, are present on mast cells and bloodbome basophils. These receptors play an important role in hypersensitivity and the initiation of acute inflammatory responses. 

Ferkol T, Perales JC, Eckman E, Kaetzel CS, Hanson RW, Davis PB (1995) Gene transfer into the airway epithelium of animals by targeting the polymeric immunoglobulin receptor 200. J Clin Invest 95 493-502... 

J.J. Langone, Protein A of Staphylococcus aureus and related immunoglobulin receptors produced by streptococci and pneumonococci. Adv. Immunol. 32,157—252 (1982). 

Sialic acids on cell surfaces seem to be involved in the masking of immunoglobulin receptors. Thus, incubation of human, or rat, blood-monocytes with sialidase exposes cryptic IgM (Fc) receptors525 and... 

Yahara I, Edelman GM. Restriction of mobility of lymphocyte immunoglobulin receptors by concanavalin-A. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1972, 69, 608-612. 

Surface immunoglobulin receptor of human B-cell lymphoma Tumor suppressor protein p53 mAb 5.5 against the ligand-binding site ot the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor Bovine pancreatic RNase fragment concanavalin A... 

Leung JC, Tsang AW, Chan DT, Lai KN. Absence of CD89, polymeric immunoglobulin receptor, and asialoglycoprotein receptor on human mesangial cells. J Am Soc Nephrol 2000 ll(2) 241-9. 

Zhang JR, Mostov KE, Lamm ME, et al.The polymeric immunoglobulin receptor translocates pneumococci across human nasopharyngeal epithelial cells. Cell 2000 102(6) 827-37. 

Elm C, Braathen R, Bergmann S, et al. Ectodomains 3 and 4 of human polymeric Immunoglobulin receptor (hpIgR) mediate invasion of Streptococcus pneumoniae into the epithelium. I Biol Chem 2004 279(8) 6296-304. 

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