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SAA1
Introduction
Serum amyloid A1, also known as SAA1, is a human gene.[1]
Further reading
Further reading
- Kisilevsky R, Tam SP (2002). “Acute phase serum amyloid A, cholesterol metabolism, and cardiovascular disease”. Pediatric pathology & molecular medicine. 21 (3): 291–305. doi:10.1080/02770930290056523. PMID 12056504.
- Sletten K, Husby G, Natvig JB (1976). “The complete amino acid sequence of an amyloid fibril protein AA1 of unusual size (64 residues)”. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 69 (1): 19–25. PMID 1259755.
- Beach CM, De Beer MC, Sipe JD; et al. (1992). “Human serum amyloid A protein. Complete amino acid sequence of a new variant”. Biochem. J. 282 ( Pt 2): 615–20. PMID 1546977.
- Betts JC, Edbrooke MR, Thakker RV, Woo P (1991). “The human acute-phase serum amyloid A gene family: structure, evolution and expression in hepatoma cells”. Scand. J. Immunol. 34 (4): 471–82. PMID 1656519.
- Zimlichman S, Danon A, Nathan I; et al. (1990). “Serum amyloid A, an acute phase protein, inhibits platelet activation”. J. Lab. Clin. Med. 116 (2): 180–6. PMID 1697614.
- Steinkasserer A, Weiss EH, Schwaeble W, Linke RP (1990). “Heterogeneity of human serum amyloid A protein. Five different variants from one individual demonstrated by cDNA sequence analysis”. Biochem. J. 268 (1): 187–93. PMID 1971508.
- Sack GH, Talbot CC (1991). “Highly polymorphic domains of the human serum amyloid A (SAA) gene GSAA1”. Scand. J. Immunol. 33 (4): 485–8. PMID 2017667.
- Glaser T, Housman D, Lewis WH; et al. (1990). “A fine-structure deletion map of human chromosome 11p: analysis of J1 series hybrids”. Somat. Cell Mol. Genet. 15 (6): 477–501. PMID 2595451.
- Woo P, Sipe J, Dinarello CA, Colten HR (1987). “Structure of a human serum amyloid A gene and modulation of its expression in transfected L cells”. J. Biol. Chem. 262 (32): 15790–5. PMID 2890635.
- Kluve-Beckerman B, Dwulet FE, Benson MD (1988). “Human serum amyloid A. Three hepatic mRNAs and the corresponding proteins in one person”. J. Clin. Invest. 82 (5): 1670–5. PMID 3183061.
- Prelli F, Pras M, Frangione B (1988). “Degradation and deposition of amyloid AA fibrils are tissue specific”. Biochemistry. 26 (25): 8251–6. PMID 3442653.
- Kluve-Beckerman B, Long GL, Benson MD (1987). “DNA sequence evidence for polymorphic forms of human serum amyloid A (SAA)”. Biochem. Genet. 24 (11–12): 795–803. PMID 3800865.
- Sipe JD, Colten HR, Goldberger G; et al. (1985). “Human serum amyloid A (SAA): biosynthesis and postsynthetic processing of preSAA and structural variants defined by complementary DNA”. Biochemistry. 24 (12): 2931–6. PMID 3839415.
- Sletten K, Husby G (1974). “The complete amino-acid sequence of non-immunoglobulin amyloid fibril protein AS in rheumatoid arthritis”. Eur. J. Biochem. 41 (1): 117–25. PMID 4816450.
- Ein D, Kimura S, Terry WD; et al. (1972). “Amino acid sequence of an amyloid fibril protein of unknown origin”. J. Biol. Chem. 247 (17): 5653–5. PMID 5055786.
- Levin M, Franklin EC, Frangione B, Pras M (1972). “The amino acid sequence of a major nonimmunoglobulin component of some amyloid fibrils”. J. Clin. Invest. 51 (10): 2773–6. PMID 5056669.
- Møyner K, Sletten K, Husby G, Natvig JB (1980). “An unusually large (83 amino acid residues) amyloid fibril protein AA from a patient with Waldenström’s macroglobulinaemia and amyloidosis”. Scand. J. Immunol. 11 (5): 549–54. PMID 6155694.
- Parmelee DC, Titani K, Ericsson LH; et al. (1982). “Amino acid sequence of amyloid-related apoprotein (apoSAA1) from human high-density lipoprotein”. Biochemistry. 21 (14): 3298–303. PMID 7115671.
- Badolato R, Wang JM, Murphy WJ; et al. (1994). “Serum amyloid A is a chemoattractant: induction of migration, adhesion, and tissue infiltration of monocytes and polymorphonuclear leukocytes”. J. Exp. Med. 180 (1): 203–9. PMID 7516407.
- Badolato R, Johnston JA, Wang JM; et al. (1995). “Serum amyloid A induces calcium mobilization and chemotaxis of human monocytes by activating a pertussis toxin-sensitive signaling pathway”. J. Immunol. 155 (8): 4004–10. PMID 7561109.
