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Fc fragment of IgE, low affinity II, receptor for (CD23)
PDB rendering based on 1t8c. The Protein Data Bank ( PDB) is a repository for 3-D structural data of Proteins and Nucleic acids These data typically obtained by X-ray crystallography
Available structures: 1t8c, 1t8d, 2h2r, 2h2t
Identifiers
Symbol(s) FCER2; CD23; CD23A; CLEC4J; FCE2; IGEBF
External IDs OMIM: 151445 MGI95497 HomoloGene1517
RNA expression pattern

More reference expression data

Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 2208 14128
Ensembl ENSG00000104921 ENSMUSG00000005540
Uniprot P06734 P20693
Refseq NM_002002 (mRNA)
NP_001993 (protein)
NM_013517 (mRNA)
NP_038545 (protein)
Location Chr 19: 7.66 - 7.67 Mb Chr 8: 3.68 - 3.69 Mb
Pubmed search [1] [2]

CD23, also known as Fc epsilon RII, or FcεRII, is the "low affinity" receptor for IgE, an antibody isotype involved in allergy and resistance to parasites and is important in regulation of IgE levels. The Human Genome Organisation (HUGO is an organization involved in the Human Genome Project, a project about mapping the human genome The Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI website is run by The Jackson Laboratory. HomoloGene, a tool of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI is a system for automated detection of homologs (similarity attributable to descent The Entrez Global Query Cross-Database Search System is a powerful Federated search engine or Web portal that allows users to search many discrete Health sciences Ensembl is a joint scientific project between the European Bioinformatics Institute and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, which was launched in 1999 in response to the imminent UniProt is the uni versal prot ein resource a central repository of Protein data created by combining Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL PubMed is a free search engine for accessing the MEDLINE database of citations and abstracts of biomedical research articles Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes in living Organisms It deals with the Structure and function of cellular components such as In Biology, Immunoglobulin E ( IgE) is a class of Antibody (or Immunoglobulin " Isotype " that has only been found in Antibodies (also known as immunoglobulins, abbreviated Ig) are Gamma globulin Proteins that are found in Blood or other Bodily Allergy is a disorder of the Immune system often also referred to as Atopy. Parasitism is a type of symbiotic relationship between Organisms of different Species. Unlike many of the antibody receptors, CD23 is a C-type lectin. Lectins are sugar-binding Proteins which are highly specific for their sugar Moieties. It is found on mature B cells, activated macrophages, eosinophils, follicular dendritic cells and platelets. B cells are Lymphocytes that play a large role in the humoral immune response (as opposed to the cell-mediated immune response, which is governed by Macrophages ( Greek: "big eaters" from makros "large" + phagein "eat" ( Mø) are cells within the tissues that Eosinophil granulocytes, usually called eosinophils (or less commonly acidophils) are White blood cells that are one of the Immune System components Platelets, or Thrombocytes, are small cytoplasmic bodies derived from cells They circulate in the Blood of Mammals and are involved

There are two forms of CD23: CD23a and CD23b. CD23a is unconditionally present on B cells, while CD23b requires IL-4 to be expressed on T-cells, monocytes, Langerhans cells, eosinophils and macrophages. Interleukin-4, abbreviated IL-4, is a Cytokine that induces differentiation of naive helper T cells ( Th0 cells to Th2 cells Upon activation by T cells belong to a group of White blood cells known as Lymphocytes, and play a central role in Cell-mediated immunity. Monocyte is a type of Leukocyte, part of the Human body 's Immune system. Not to be confused with the Beta cells making up the Islets of Langerhans. [1]

The allergen responsible in dust mite allergy, Der-p-1, is known to cleave CD23 from a cells surface. As CD23 is soluble it can move freely and interact with cells in plasma. Recent studies have shown that increased levels of soluble CD23 cause the recruitment of non-sensitised B-cells in the presentation of antigen peptides to allergen specific B-cells, therefore increasing the production of allergen specific IgE. IgE in turn is known to upregulate the cellular expression of CD23 and Fc epsilon RI (high affinity IgE receptor).

References

  1. ^ Abbas, A. K. and Andrew Licktman, 2003, Cellular and Molecular Immunology, pp. 324-325. ISBN 0-7216-0008-5.

Further reading

See also

The cluster of differentiation (often abbreviated as CD) is a protocol used for the identification and investigation of Cell surface molecules present on Leukocytes
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