Recombinant Human Galectin-3 protein (LGALS3)

1. results demonstrate that human resting NK cells express Gal-3 at both gene and protein levels and that the Gal-3 expression can be modulated upon cytokine stimulation. In the same cells, Gal-3 always localizes intracellularly and functionally correlates with the degree of NK cell degranulation. PMID: 29248489
2. Interaction between galectin-3 and its potential inhibitor, bergenin, was studied using computational methods. PMID: 30276553
3. It has been reported that the Galectin-3/NuMA interaction is functionally important for the spindle pole organization; spindle pole cohesion requires glycosylation-mediated localization of NuMA. PMID: 28469279
4. The Mac-2-binding protein glycosylation isomer (M2BPGi), which is also known as Wisteria floribunda agglutinin-positive human Mac-2-binding protein, was recently established as a glycol-biomarker of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C with a unique fibrosis-related glycoalteration. PMID: 30128700
5. Higher plasma galectin-3 levels were associated with an elevated risk of developing incident chronic kidney disease, particularly among those with hypertension. PMID: 28865675
6. Pre-interventional plasma Galectin-3 levels are associated with left ventricular reverse remodeling and with clinical outcome after percutaneous mitral valve repair. PMID: 29678512
7. Galectin-3 is significantly associated with functional capacity, cardiac function and adverse cardiovascular events in adults with congenital heart defects. PMID: 28942393
8. Gene expression was analyzed for miR-1, miR-21, and galectin-3 in hypertensive patients with symptomatic heart failure and left ventricular hypertrophy. PMID: 29905364
9. Serum expression of miR-1 and miR-21, and the concentration of gal-3 in systolic heart failure patients with different degrees of left ventricular dilatation. PMID: 29905365
10. Serum galectin-3 is associated with coronary atherosclerosis and obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) severity in OSAS patients. PMID: 28150280
11. Study demonstrates that mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC)-derived LGALS3 may be critical for important biological pathways for MSC homeostasis and for regulating AML cell localization and survival in the leukemia microenvironmental niche. PMID: 29655803
12. Low expression of galectin-3 was detected in all patients with malignant gastrointestinal tumors irrespective of the presence of eosinophilia. PMID: 29926280
13. These findings highlight a new role for Galectin 3 as a non-classic RNA-binding protein that regulates MUC4 mRNA post-transcriptionally. PMID: 28262838
14. Galectin-3 is superior to sST2 in distinguishing HFpEF from controls and HFrEF. PMID: 30039808
15. erum Gal-3 levels were significantly higher in breast cancer (BC) patients and did not significantly differ according to clinical and tumoral characteristics of patients. Furthermore, there was no difference in Gal-3 levels between breast patients with and without metastatic disease. PMID: 30249872
16. Gal3 expression in regional lymph nodes might be associated with oral squamous cell carcinomas progression. The increased Gal3 expression in regional lymph nodes of larger tumors underlines the need of immunomodulatory treatment concepts in early-stage oral squamous cell carcinomas . Blocking of Gal3 might be a therapeutic option in oral cancer. PMID: 30115022
17. High Gal-3 serum levels predict fibrosis of the atrial appendage. PMID: 28079145
18. this study reviews the role of galectin-3 in Atrial Fibrillation mechanisms and its potential therapeutic implications. PMID: 29587379
19. Our findings provide evidence that allele C of rs4652 and allele T of rs11125 in the galectin-3 gene may be risk factors for cervical cancer. PMID: 28848207
20. High GAL-3 expression is associated with Salivary Gland Tumor. PMID: 29580041
21. Galectin-3 is greatly reduced in patients with cutaneous lupus lesions compared with healthy controls, which may contribute to the recruitment of inflammatory cells in the skin. PMID: 29058991
22. Progesterone receptor, EGFR, and galectin-3 are expressed differentially in uterine smooth muscle tumors. PMID: 29729689
23. Galectin-3 belongs to a class of inflammatory mediators that is associated with the degree of myocardial inflammation and fibrosis. It is related to the severity of myocardial ischemia and is negatively correlated with the cardiac ejection fraction. PMID: 29287900
24. Increased GAL-3 levels are an independent predictor of all-cause mortality in hemodialysis patients. PMID: 26787685
25. High GAL3 expression is associated with oral squamous cell carcinomas. PMID: 29284429
26. High expression level of Galectin-3 and low expression level of TRAIL were found to be positively correlated with the shorter median survival time and overall survival time. PMID: 28925481
27. Galectin-3 is overexpressed in patients with thyroid nodules, and can be used for diagnostic imaging and therapeutic targeting of cancer patients. (Review) PMID: 29393868
28. With emerging evidence to support the function and application of galectin3, the current review aims to summarize the latest literature regarding the biomarker characteristics and potential therapeutic application of galectin3 in associated diseases. PMID: 29207027
29. Our results indicate that concomitant stimulation and colocalization of galectin-3 with CD147 are associated with increased gelatinolytic activity in the actively ulcerating human cornea PMID: 29340650
30. Galectin-3 can be used as a biomarker for the prognosis evaluation of acute heart failure, and its combined analysis can increase the predictive value of NT-proBNP PMID: 29077153
31. Galectin has been identified as a proinflammatory protein and modulates immune responses either as damage-associated molecular patterns or as pattern recognition receptors. PMID: 28828226
32. Gal-3 was found to be significantly higher in the stroma of patients with H. pylori infection, mainly on Cag-A positive H. pylori, with chronic gastritis. PMID: 28939284
33. The present study demonstrates a relationship between galectin-3 levels and total body fat, abdominal fat, body fat distribution, cardiac size and geometry, and increase in total body fat over 2 years in young children. PMID: 29327139
34. Results suggest that galectin-3 could help to monitor the risk of short-term mortality in unselected patients with acute heart failure (AHF) attended in the emergency department (ED). PMID: 28406038
35. Report establishes the functional significance of Gal-3 as a broad-spectrum upstream effector in osteoarthritis (OA). A positive correlation between cartilage degeneration and Gal-3 positivity in chondrocytes and the ECM was found. PMID: 27982117
36. the secretion of galectin-3 as a novel mechanism for osteoblasts to control osteoclastogenesis and to maintain trabecular bone homeostasis independently of the RANKL/OPG-axis. PMID: 28822790
37. Gal-3 plasma concentration was significantly higher in pulmonary arterial hypertension patients. PMID: 28826890
38. Galectin-3 was associated with incident ischaemic stroke in younger but not older individuals. PMID: 28872212
39. As MUC1 and galectin-3 are both commonly overexpressed in most types of epithelial cancers, their interaction and impact on EGFR activation likely makes important contribution to EGFR-associated tumorigenesis and cancer progression. PMID: 28731466
40. serum Gal-3 is increased in Acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients. PMID: 28947730
41. High serum levels of galectin-3 were found in patients with schizophrenia compared with that in controls. PMID: 28698921
42. N-linked glycoprotein maturation is not required for Gal-3 transport from the cytosol to the extracellular space, but is important for cell surface binding. Additionally, secreted Gal-3 is predominantly free and not packaged into extracellular vesicles. These data support a secretion pathway independent of N-linked glycoproteins and extracellular vesicles. PMID: 28775154
43. NRG1 and Gal-3 were significantly more elevated in cancer patients than in healthy controls. PMID: 28430337
44. discovery of site specific N-glycosylation changes of LGALS3BP in association of PDAC may provide useful clues to facilitate cancer detection or phenotype stratification PMID: 28627758
45. Our findings establish gal-3 as a molecular regulator of the JAG1/Notch-1 signaling pathway and have direct implications for the development of strategies aimed at controlling tumor angiogenesis. PMID: 28533486
46. findings reveal that differential levels of Gal-3 and Gal-8 expression and recruitment to Group A streptococcus (GAS) between epithelial cells and endothelial cells may contribute to the different outcomes of GAS elimination or survival and growth of GAS in these two types of cells. PMID: 28743815
47. The methylation frequency of the galectin-3 promoter was significantly higher while galectin-3 mRNA was lower in acute-on-chronic hepatitis B liver failure (ACHBLF) than in chronic hepatitis B and healthy controls. The results suggest that hypermethylation of the galectin-3 promoter might be an early biomarker for predicting disease severity and prognosis in patients with ACHBLF. PMID: 28185839
48. Serum Gal-3 and Nox4 levels were significantly elevated and correlated in 26 human pulmonary arterial hypertension patients when compared with 14 age- and sex-matched healthy controls. PMID: 28431936
49. These results demonstrate Tsc2-deficient mesenchymal progenitors cause aberrant morphogenic signals, and identify an expression signature including Lgals3 relevant for human disease of TSC1/TSC2 inactivation and mTORC1 hyperactivity. PMID: 28695825
50. Galectin-3 is a possible immunological target molecule of the pathogenic auto-antibodies PMID: 27339072

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HGNC: 6563

OMIM: 153619

KEGG: hsa:3958

STRING: 9606.ENSP00000254301

UniGene: Hs.531081