Binding of Human Complement Component C4b-Binding Protein (C4BP) to Streptococcus pyogenes Involves the C4b-Binding Site

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 157, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 4935-4939

  Accardo, Pietro ^a,b   Sánchez Corral, Pilar ^a   Criado, Olga ^a   García, Ernesto ^a   Rodríguez De Córdoba, Santiago ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b Istituto di Patologia Generale   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4B; COMPLEMENT INHIBITOR; COMPLEMENT RECEPTOR; EPITOPE; GLYCOPROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING COMPETITION; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PRIMATE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; COMPLEMENT C4B; COMPLEMENT INACTIVATOR PROTEINS; EPITOPES; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; KINETICS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PRIMATES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTORS, COMPLEMENT; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0030469335     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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