The lipopolysaccharide-binding protein participating in hemocyte nodule formation in the silkworm Bombyx mori is a novel member of the C-type lectin superfamily with two different tandem carbohydrate-recognition domains

FEBS Letters

Volumn 443, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 139-143

  Koizumi, Nobuo ^a   Imamura, Morikazu ^a   Kadotani, Tomoyuki ^a   Yaoi, Katsuro ^a   Iwahana, Hidenori ^a   Sato, Ryoichi ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Lab Molec Mechanism of Bio Intrac   (Japan)

Author keywords

C type lectin; Carbohydrate recognition domain; Immunity; Insect; Lipopolysaccharide binding protein; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CARBOHYDRATE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LECTIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; HEMOLYMPH; IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILKWORM;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BOMBYX; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEMOCYTES; LECTINS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BOMBYX MORI; INSECTA;

EID: 0032993577     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(98)01701-3     Document Type: Article

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