Conservation of plasma regulatory proteins of the complement system in evolution: Humans and fish

Experimental and Clinical Immunogenetics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 55-62

  Kempera, Claudia ^a,b   Gigli, Irma ^b   Zipfel, Peter F ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Complement system; Conservation; Factor H related proteins; Human factor H; Plasma regulatory proteins; SBP1

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BASS; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

PARALABRAX NEBULIFER; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 0034101232     PISSN: 02549670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000019124     Document Type: Article

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