Purification and binding properties of a human ficolin-like protein

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 43-49

  Le, Y ^a   Tan, S M ^a   Lee, S H ^a   Kon, O L ^a   Lu, J ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

collagen like; fibrinogen like; ficolin; GlcNAc; P35

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; COLLAGEN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1Q; FIBRINOGEN; FICOLIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GEL FILTRATION; HUMAN; MONOCYTE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; HUMANS; LECTINS; MALTOSE; MANNOSE;

EID: 0030937662     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1759(97)00029-X     Document Type: Article

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