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ArticleCell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.)2018

Role of FcαR EC2 region in extracellular membrane localization.

Ser-Xian Phua, Wai-Heng Lua, Samuel Ken-En Gan

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Article in Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ser-Xian Phuaa Bioinformatics Institute , Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) , Singapore.
Wai-Heng Luaa Bioinformatics Institute , Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) , Singapore.
Samuel Ken-En Gana Bioinformatics Institute , Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) , Singapore.ORCID 0000-0001-9936-5090
Agency for Science, Technology and Research · SG

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The FcαR receptor (CD89) binds to the constant region of Immunoglobulin (Ig) A to mediate mucosal immunity [1-2]. FcαR consist of five exons: two that code for the signal peptide regions S1 & S2, two for the extracellular regions EC1 and EC2, and the final exon for the transmembrane/cytoplasmic tail region [3]. Previously, we reported that the EC1 region plays an essential role for extracellular membrane localization of the receptor [4], where the absence of EC1 would prevent the variants from localizing to the cell surface, even with a full signal peptide. In the case of FcαR Variant 4 (lacking the S2 region only), there was some "leakiness" to membrane surface localization.

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Antigens, CDCell MembraneHeLa CellsHumansImmunity, MucosalImmunoglobulin AMicroscopy, ConfocalMutagenesisReceptors, FcAntigens, CDFc(alpha) receptorImmunoglobulin AReceptors, FcEC2FCARsignal peptide

Identifiers

PMID29578358
PMCPMC5969543
OpenAlexW2790941257

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