 Scavenger Receptors, Class A
"Scavenger Receptors, Class A" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A family of scavenger receptors that mediate the influx of LIPIDS into MACROPHAGES and are involved in FOAM CELL formation.
| Descriptor ID |
D051117
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.543.750.705.940.500 D12.776.543.750.710.450.750.500
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Scavenger Receptors, Class A".
- Chemicals and Drugs [D]
- Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins [D12]
- Proteins [D12.776]
- Membrane Proteins [D12.776.543]
- Receptors, Cell Surface [D12.776.543.750]
- Receptors, Immunologic [D12.776.543.750.705]
- Receptors, Scavenger [D12.776.543.750.705.940]
- Scavenger Receptors, Class A [D12.776.543.750.705.940.500]
- Receptors, Lipoprotein [D12.776.543.750.710]
- Receptors, LDL [D12.776.543.750.710.450]
- Receptors, Scavenger [D12.776.543.750.710.450.750]
- Scavenger Receptors, Class A [D12.776.543.750.710.450.750.500]
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| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Scavenger Receptors, Class A" by people in Profiles.
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Cummings L, Tucker M, Gibson M, Myers A, Pastinen T, Johnston J, Farrow E, Sampath V. Rare Genetic Variants in Immune Genes and Neonatal Herpes Simplex Viral Infections. Pediatrics. 2021 01; 147(1).
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Williams DL, de La Llera-Moya M, Thuahnai ST, Lund-Katz S, Connelly MA, Azhar S, Anantharamaiah GM, Phillips MC. Binding and cross-linking studies show that scavenger receptor BI interacts with multiple sites in apolipoprotein A-I and identify the class A amphipathic alpha-helix as a recognition motif. J Biol Chem. 2000 Jun 23; 275(25):18897-904.
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