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01-08-2019 | Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis | LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Pro-inflammatory S100A9 Protein: a Double-Edged Sword in Cancer?
Authors:
Vahid Bagheri, Vasso Apostolopoulos
Published in:
Inflammation
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Issue 4/2019
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Excerpt
Calgranulins, S100A8 (calgranulin A), S100A9 (calgranulin B), and S100A12 (calgranulin C), belong to the S100 family of calcium-binding proteins that are expressed in a number of cells, particularly in human neutrophils. They act
via two receptors, the receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) and toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), to stimulate pro-inflammatory responses [
1,
2]. The S100A12 gene is located between S100A8 and S100A9 in the human genome, whereas it is not present in the murine genome [
3]. …