Complement-related serine proteases in tunicates and vertebrates

Current Opinion in Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 29-35

  Matsushita, Misao ^a   Endo, Yuichi ^a   Nonaka, Masaru ^b   Fujita, Teizo ^b  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1R; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1S; MANNOSE BINDING PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ASCIDIACEA; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; EVOLUTION; IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN FAMILY; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 0032006910     PISSN: 09527915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0952-7915(98)80027-7     Document Type: Article

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