Antibodies to human serum amyloid P component eliminate visceral amyloid deposits

K Bodin, S Ellmerich, MC Kahan, GA Tennent… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Accumulation of amyloid fibrils in the viscera and connective tissues causes systemic
amyloidosis, which is responsible for about one in a thousand deaths in developed countries 1 . …

Structure of pentameric human serum amyloid P component

J Emsley, HE White, BP O'hara, G Oliva, N Srinivasan… - Nature, 1994 - nature.com
The three-dimensional structure of pentameric human serum amyloid P component at high
resolution, the first reported for a pentraxin, reveals that the tertiary fold is remarkably similar …

Human serum amyloid P component is a single uncomplexed pentamer in whole serum

WL Hutchinson, E Hohenester, MB Pepys - Molecular Medicine, 2000 - Springer
Background Serum amyloid P component (SAP) is a universal constituent of amyloid deposits
and contributes to their pathogenesis. SAP also has important normal functions in the …

Human serum amyloid P component is an invariant constituent of amyloid deposits and has a uniquely homogeneous glycostructure.

MB Pepys, TW Rademacher… - Proceedings of the …, 1994 - National Acad Sciences
… ABSTRACT Human serum amyloid P component (SAP) is a normal plasma protein and the
Human serum amyloid P component (SAP) is a normal plasma protein (1) and the precursor …

Diagnostic radionuclide imaging of amyloid: biological targeting by circulating human serum amyloid P component

PN Hawkins, JP Lavender, MJ Myers, MB Pepys - The Lancet, 1988 - Elsevier
The specific molecular affinity of the normal plasma protein, serum amyloid P component (SAP),
for all known types of amyloid fibrils was used to develop a new general diagnostic …

Human serum amyloid P component. cDNA isolation, complete sequence of pre-serum amyloid P component, and localization of the gene to chromosome 1.

EC Mantzouranis, SB Dowton, AS Whitehead… - Journal of Biological …, 1985 - Elsevier
… Complementary DNA clones corresponding to the human serum amyloid P component (SAP)
were isolated, and the complete nucleotide and derived amino acid sequence of preSAP …

Evidence for the binding of human serum amyloid P component to Clq and Fabγ

CL Bristow, RJ Boackle - Molecular immunology, 1986 - Elsevier
… and Pepys MB (1985) Human serum amyloid P component, a circulating lectin with …
fibrin clot formation by human serum amyloid P component (SAP) and heparin. J. expo Med. …

Binding of human serum amyloid P-component to phosphocholine

RB Christner, RF Mortensen - Archives of biochemistry and biophysics, 1994 - Elsevier
Human serum amyloid P-component (SAP) and C-reactive protein (CRP) are structurally
similar pentraxins composed of five identical subunits in a disc-like configuration and display …

Native human serum amyloid P component is a single pentamer

IJ Sørensen, O Andersen, EH Nielsen… - Scandinavian journal …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
… polymerization of human serum amyloid P component is inhibited … Human serum amyloid P
component oligomers bind and … Human serum amyloid P-component (SAP) selectively binds …

Binding characteristics of human serum amyloid P component

D Serban, C Rordorf‐Adam - Scandinavian Journal of …, 1987 - Wiley Online Library
Human serum amyloid P component (SAP) is a normal serum component, originally called
9.5 S-alpha-1-glycoprotein [5|, The protein has been purified on the basis of its binding to …