Horseshoe Crab Coagulogen Is an Invertebrate Protein with a Nerve Growth Factor-Like Domain

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 378, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 283-288

  Bergner, Andreas ^a   Beise, Hans Georg ^a   Bode, Wolfram ^a   Muta, Tatsushi ^b   Iwanaga, Sadaaki ^b   Delotto, Robert ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Coagulogen; Crystal structure; Horseshoe crab; Nerve growth factor

Indexed keywords

ENZYME PRECURSOR; FIBRIN; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FIBRIN CLOT; HEMOLYMPH; HEMOSTASIS; LIMULUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HEMOLYMPH; HORSESHOE CRABS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; LIMULUS; MAMMALIA; MEROSTOMATA;

EID: 0030918084     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bchm.1997.378.3-4.283     Document Type: Article

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