Role of tachylectins in host defense of the Japanese horseshoe crab Tachypleus tridentatus

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 484, Issue , 2001, Pages 195-202

  Kawabata, S ^a   Beisel, H G ^b   Huber, R ^b   Bode, W ^b   Gokudan, S ^a   Muta, T ^a   Tsuda, R ^a   Koori, K ^a   Kawahara, T ^a   Seki, N ^a   Mizunoe, Y ^c   Wai, S N ^c   Iwanaga, S ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LECTIN; TACHYLECTIN 2; TACHYLECTIN 5A; TACHYLECTIN 5B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BINDING SITE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRAB; HEMOLYMPH; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BLOOD PROTEINS; HEMOLYMPH; HORSESHOE CRABS; LECTINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MEROSTOMATA; TACHYPLEUS TRIDENTATUS;

EID: 0035060870     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-1291-2_18     Document Type: Article

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