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Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycan Metabolism and the Fate of Grafted Tissues

Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycan Metabolism and the Fate of Grafted Tissues

Jeffrey L Platt, Lucile E Wrenshall, Geoffrey B Johnson, Marilia Cascalho

Adv Exp Med Biol. 2015;865:123-40.

PMID: 26306447

Abstract:

Tissue and organ transplants between genetically distinct individuals are always or nearly always rejected. The universality and speed of transplant rejection distinguishes this immune response from all others. Although this distinction is incompletely understood, some efforts to shed light on transplant rejection have revealed broader insights, including a relationship between activation of complement in grafted tissues, the metabolism of heparan sulfate proteoglycan and the nature of immune and inflammatory responses that ensue. Complement activation on cell surfaces, especially on endothelial cell surfaces, causes the shedding heparan sulfate, an acidic saccharide, from the cell surface and neighboring extracellular matrix. Solubilized in this way, heparan sulfate can activate leukocytes via toll like receptor-4, triggering inflammatory responses and activating dendritic cells, which migrate to regional lymphoid organs where they spark and to some extent govern cellular immune responses. In this way local ischemia, tissue injury and infection, exert systemic impact on immunity. Whether or in what circumstances this series of events explains the distinct characteristics of the immune response to transplants is still unclear but the events offer insight into the inception of immunity under the sub-optimal conditions accompanying infection and mechanisms by which infection and tissue injury engender systemic inflammation.

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Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
IAR4241166	Heparan sulfate proteoglycan			Price

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