ArticleCells2021
Lung Mast Cells Have a High Constitutive Expression of Carboxypeptidase A3 mRNA That Is Independent from Granule-Stored CPA3.
Article in Cells, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Mechanism of RNA-Binding Protein ELAVL1 in Promoting Th2 Cell Differentiation Through Stabilizing CPA3 mRNA in Allergic Rhinitis.The Kaohsiung journal of medical sciences · 2026Article
- Mast cell proteases and their significance in physiology, pathology, and therapeutic approaches.Pharmacological reviews · 2026Review
- Single-cell-marker-based subtyping and multi-level analyses uncover the prognostic effects, dysregulations and therapeutic indicative potential of an eight-gene signature in lung adenocarcinoma.Cancer cell international · 2026Article
- Identification, purification and characterization of mast cells in murine liver fibrosis: optimized methods, expression signatures and correlation with severity.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- CPA3 drives the development of asthma by promoting the activation of the JAK/STAT6 pathway.Respiratory research · 2025Article
- Fibroblast-Mediated Macrophage Recruitment Supports Acute Wound Healing.The Journal of investigative dermatology · 2025Article
- Mast Cell Carboxypeptidase A3 Is Associated with Pulmonary Fibrosis Secondary to COVID-19.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Deep skin fibroblast-mediated macrophage recruitment supports acute wound healing.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Inference of differential key regulatory networks and mechanistic drug repurposing candidates from scRNA-seq data with SCANet.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
- Mast Cells as a Potential Target of Molecular Hydrogen in Regulating the Local Tissue Microenvironment.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Bioinformatic Analysis of Key Regulatory Genes in Adult Asthma and Prediction of Potential Drug Candidates.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Analysis of human lung mast cells by single cell RNA sequencing.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Article
- Quantitative Transcriptome Analysis of Purified Equine Mast Cells Identifies a Dominant Mucosal Mast Cell Population with Possible Inflammatory Functions in Airways of Asthmatic Horses.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Single-cell RNA sequencing of mast cells in eosinophilic esophagitis reveals heterogeneity, local proliferation, and activation that persists in remission.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2022Article
- The Human Monocyte-A Circulating Sensor of Infection and a Potent and Rapid Inducer of Inflammation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- The role of human mast cells in allergy and asthma.Bioengineered · 2022Review
- Review
- Mast Cell and Basophil Granule Proteases -Frontiers in immunology · 2022Review
- Dynamically upregulated mast cell CPA3 patterns in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Article
- The Evolutionary History of theInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The mast cell granule metalloprotease CPA3 is proposed to have important tissue homeostatic functions. However, the basal CPA3 mRNA and protein expression among mast cell populations has remained poorly investigated. Using a novel histology-based methodology that yields quantitative data on mRNA and protein expression at a single-cell level, the present study maps CPA3 mRNA and protein throughout the MCT and MCTC populations in healthy skin, gut and lung tissues. MCTC cells had both a higher frequency of CPA3 protein-containing cells and a higher protein-staining intensity than the MCT population. Among the tissues, skin MCs had highest CPA3 protein intensity. The expression pattern at the mRNA level was reversed. Lung mast cells had the highest mean CPA3 mRNA staining. Intriguingly, the large alveolar MCT population, that lack CPA3 protein, had uniquely high CPA3 mRNA intensity. A broader multi-tissue RNA analysis confirmed the uniquely high CPA3 mRNA quantities in the lung and corroborated the dissociation between chymase and CPA3 at the mRNA level. Taken together, our novel data suggest a hitherto underestimated contribution of mucosal-like MCT to baseline CPA3 mRNA production. The functional consequence of this high constitutive expression now reveals an important area for further research.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.