The Human Complement C1 Complex Has a Picomolar Dissociation Constant at Room Temperature

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 937-944

  Tseng, Yiou ^a   Zavodszky, Peter ^b   Schumaker, Verne N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1Q; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1R; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1S; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1S INHIBITOR; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; KINETICS; METABOLISM; OSMOLARITY; TEMPERATURE;

CALCIUM; COMPLEMENT C1; COMPLEMENT C1 INACTIVATOR PROTEINS; COMPLEMENT C1Q; COMPLEMENT C1R; COMPLEMENT C1S; HUMANS; KINETICS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0031568003     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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