New types of clotting factors and defense molecules found in horseshoe crab hemolymph: Their structures and functions

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-15

  Iwanaga, Sadaaki ^a   Kawabata, Shun Ichiro ^a   Muta, Tatsushi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

(1,3) d glucans; Horseshoe crab; Host defense; Innate immunity; Lipopolysaccharides

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR; CYSTATIN; DEFENSIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; TACHYPLESIN;

BLOOD CELL; BLOOD CLOTTING; HEMOLYMPH; HOST RESISTANCE; LIMULUS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SECRETORY GRANULE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; LIMULUS; MEROSTOMATA;

EID: 0031934614     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a021894     Document Type: Review

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