The role fo Ficolins in innate immunity

Immunobiology

Volumn 205, Issue 4-5, 2002, Pages 490-497

  Matsushita, Misao ^a   Fujita, Teizo ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CARBOHYDRATE BINDING PROTEIN; COLLAGEN; COLLECTIN; FIBRINOGEN; FICOLIN; LECTIN; MANNOSE BINDING PROTEIN; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; OPSONIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARRIER PROTEIN; MANNAN BINDING LECTIN ASSOCIATED SERINE PROTEINASE; MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN;

ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPLEMENT LECTIN PATHWAY; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; COMPLEMENT PATHWAY, MANNOSE-BINDING LECTIN; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LECTINS; MANNOSE-BINDING LECTIN; MANNOSE-BINDING PROTEIN-ASSOCIATED SERINE PROTEASES; PHYLOGENY; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 0036708373     PISSN: 01712985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0171-2985-00149     Document Type: Article

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