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Local release of properdin in the cellular microenvironment: role in pattern recognition and amplification of the alternative pathway of complement.
Front Immunol
January 2013
Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo Toledo, OH, USA ; Department Medical Immunology and Microbiology, Medical University of the Americas West Indies, Nevis.
Properdin, the only positive regulatory protein of the complement system, acts as both a stabilizer of the alternative pathway (AP) convertases and as a selective pattern recognition molecule of certain microorganisms and host cells (i.e., apoptotic/necrotic cells) by serving as a platform for de novo C3b,Bb assembly.
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