Identifiers
HUGO:LGALS3
Maps_Modules
HMC:AVOIDING_IMMUNE_DESTRUCTION
HMC:TUMOR_PROMOTING_INFLAMMATION
Innate Immunity / MARKERS_MACROPHAGE
Innate Immunity / IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE_CYTOKINE_PATHWAYS
References
PMID:22703233
TGFBR2 upregulates expression of markers M2 activation as ARG1, MCR2 and LGALS3 (galecsin3) and induces AKT activation.
PMID:18250477
LGALS3 participates in M2 activation of macrophages. And vice versa classically activated macrophages down-regulate galectin-3 expression and show reduced galectin-3 expression on the cell surface.
IL-4 or IL-13 stimulated the release of galectin-3
into the culture media in both BMDMs and PBMs.
An IL-4-mediated LGALS3 (galectin-3) autocrine loop promotes alternative macrophage activation and is blocked by pharmacological inhibition of galectin-3 and its receptor CD98.