Sea urchin coelomocytes specifically express a homologue of the complement component C3

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 160, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2983-2997

  Al Sharif, Walid Z ^a   Sunyer, J Oriol ^b   Lambris, John D ^b   Smith, L Courtney ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 MACROGLOBULIN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEA URCHIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPLEMENT C3; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE DOSAGE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEA URCHINS;

EID: 0032521276     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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