Molecular basis of non-self recognition by the horseshoe crab tachylectins

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects

Volumn 1572, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 414-421

  Kawabata, Shun Ichiro ^a   Tsuda, Ryoko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fibrinogen; Ficolin; Horseshoe crab; Innate immunity; Non self recognition; Tachylectin

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ALPHA 2 MACROGLOBULIN; COLLAGEN; LECTIN; LIGAND; MANNOSE BINDING PROTEIN; MONOSACCHARIDE; OLIGOMER; OPSONIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN FICOLINS; TACHYLECTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BINDING SITE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; HOST; LIMULUS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BLOOD PROTEINS; CRYSTALLIZATION; HEMOCYTES; HORSESHOE CRABS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LECTINS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHAGOCYTOSIS;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MAMMALIA; MEROSTOMATA;

EID: 0037136403     PISSN: 03044165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4165(02)00322-7     Document Type: Review

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