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- Title
Serglycin--structure and biology.
- Authors
Kolset, S O; Tveit, H
- Abstract
Serglycin is a proteoglycan found in hematopoietic cells and endothelial cells. It has important functions related to formation of several types of storage granules. In connective tissue mast cells the covalently attached glycosaminoglycan is heparin, whereas mucosal mast cells and activated macrophages contain oversulfated chondroitin sulfate (type E). In mast cells, serglycin interact with histamine, chymase, tryptase and carboxypeptidase, in neutrophils with elastase, in cytotoxic T cells with granzyme B, in endothelial cells with tissue-type plasminogen activator and in macrophages with tumor necrosis factor-alpha. Serglycin is important for the retention of key inflammatory mediators inside storage granules and secretory vesicles. Serglycin can further modulate the activities of partner molecules in different ways after secretion from activated immune cells, through protection, transport, activation and interactions with substrates or target cells. Serglycin is a proteoglycan with important roles in inflammatory reactions.
- Publication
Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS, 2008, Vol 65, Issue 7-8, p1073
- ISSN
1420-682X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00018-007-7455-6