Isolation and characterization of Dorin M, a lectin from plasma of the soft tick Ornithodoros moubata

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 195-205

  Kovář, Vojtěch ^a   Kopáček, Petr ^a   Grubhoffer, Libor ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Lectin; Sialic acid; Tick plasma

Indexed keywords

HEXOSAMINE; LECTIN; SIALIC ACID; SIALOGLYCOPROTEIN;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; ANION EXCHANGE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DEGLYCOSYLATION; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TEST; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMA; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; TICK;

ANIMALS; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TESTS; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; LECTINS; MICE; TICKS;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; BOVINAE; HEXAPODA; ORNITHODOROS MOUBATA;

EID: 0343049158     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(99)00107-1     Document Type: Article

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