The rat and mouse homologues of MASP-2 and MAp19, components of the lectin activation pathway of complement

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 163, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 6848-6859

  Stover, Cordula M ^a   Thiel, Steffen ^b   Lynch, Nicholas J ^c   Schwaeble, Wilhelm J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LECTIN; MESSENGER RNA; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLLECTINS; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; DNA PROBES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; INTRONS; LECTINS; MANNANS; MANNOSE-BINDING PROTEIN-ASSOCIATED SERINE PROTEASES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 0032740316     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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