The structural organisation of pentraxin-3 and its interactions with heavy chains of inter-α-inhibitor regulate crosslinking of the hyaluronan matrix

Shah A, Zhang X, Snee M, Lockhart-Cairns M, Levy C, Jowitt T, Birchenough H, Dean L, Collins R, Dodd R, Roberts A, Enghild J, Mantovani A, Fontana J, Baldock C, Inforzato A, Richter R, Day A, Matrix Biology 136:52-68 (2025) DOI

SASDVA6 – Pentraxin-3

Pentraxin-related protein PTX3
MWexperimental 324 kDa
MWexpected 321 kDa
VPorod 658 nm3
log I(s) 4.87×10-1 4.87×10-2 4.87×10-3 4.87×10-4
Pentraxin-related protein PTX3 small angle scattering data  s, nm-1
ln I(s)
Pentraxin-related protein PTX3 Guinier plot ln 4.87×10-1 Rg: 8.6 nm 0 (8.6 nm)-2 s2
(sRg)2I(s)/I(0)
Pentraxin-related protein PTX3 Kratky plot 1.104 0 3 sRg
p(r)
Pentraxin-related protein PTX3 pair distance distribution function Rg: 9.7 nm 0 Dmax: 43.1 nm

Data validation


Fits and models


log I(s)
 s, nm-1
Pentraxin-related protein PTX3 ALLOSMOD model

Synchrotron SAXS data from solutions of Pentraxin-3 in 50 mM Tris-HCl, 150 mM NaCl, pH 7.4 were collected on the B21 beam line at the Diamond Light Source (Didcot, UK) using a Pilatus 2M detector at a sample-detector distance of 2.7 m and at a wavelength of λ = 0.095 nm (I(s) vs s, where s = 4πsinθ/λ, and 2θ is the scattering angle). In-line size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) SAS was employed. The SEC parameters were as follows: A 45.00 μl sample at 6 mg/ml was injected at a 0.075 ml/min flow rate onto a Cytiva Superose 6 Increase 3.2/300 column at 20°C. 620 successive 1 second frames were collected throughout the entire SEC elution. The data were normalized to the intensity of the transmitted beam and radially averaged; the scattering of the solvent-blank was subtracted.

Pentraxin-related protein PTX3 (PTX3)
Mol. type   Protein
Organism   Homo sapiens
Olig. state   Octamer
Mon. MW   40.1 kDa
 
UniProt   P26022 (18-381)
Sequence   FASTA