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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2020

Blood-Borne ST6GAL1 Regulates Immunoglobulin Production in B Cells.

Eric E Irons, Patrick R Punch, Joseph T Y Lau

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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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.

Eric E IronsDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States.
Patrick R PunchDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States.
Joseph T Y LauDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States.
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center · US

Funding

ST6Gal-1 Sialyltransferase in InflammationR01AI140736 · NIAID · ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE CORP · PI LAU, JOSEPH TY · 2018 to 2021
$3.9M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI140736
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Humoral immunity is an effective but metabolically expensive defense mechanism. It is unclear whether systemic cues exist to communicate the dynamic need for antigen presentation and immunoglobulin production. Here, we report a novel role for the liver-produced, acute phase reactant ST6GAL1 in IgG production. B cell expression of ST6GAL1, a sialyltransferase mediating the attachment of α2,6-linked sialic acids on N-glycans, is classically implicated in the dysregulated B cell development and immunoglobulin levels of

Indexed as

Animalsbeta-D-Galactoside alpha 2-6-SialyltransferaseB-LymphocytesImmunity, HumoralImmunoglobulin GMiceMice, Inbred C57BLN-Acetylneuraminic AcidSialic Acid Binding Ig-like Lectin 2Sialyltransferasesbeta-D-Galactoside alpha 2-6-SialyltransferaseCd22 protein, mouseImmunoglobulin GN-Acetylneuraminic AcidSialic Acid Binding Ig-like Lectin 2SialyltransferasesB cellcirculating factorextracellularIgGregulation – post-transcriptionalsialic acidsialyltransferaseST6Gal I

Identifiers

PMID32391003
PMCPMC7190976
OpenAlexW3018136950

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