Tachycitin, a small granular component in horseshoe crab hemocytes, is an antimicrobial protein with chitin-binding activity

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1253-1260

  Kawabata, Shun Ichiro ^a,b   Nagayama, Ranko ^a   Hirata, Michimasa ^c   Shigenaga, Takeshi ^b   Lal Agarwala, Kishan ^b   Saito, Tetsu ^b   Cho, Junko ^d   Nakajima, Hiroshi ^d   Takagi, Toshio ^e   Iwanaga, Sadaaki ^a,b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agglutinin; Antimicrobial activity; Chitin binding; Horseshoe crab; Host defense

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CELL PROTEIN; CELLULOSE; CHITIN; CHITINASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DEFENSIN; LAMINARAN; LECTIN; MANNAN; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEINASE; TACHYPLESIN; XYLAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BLOOD CELL; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL GRANULE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; DNA LIBRARY; FUNGUS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; LIMULUS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); FUNGI; LIMULUS; MEROSTOMATA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 12644287510     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a021549     Document Type: Article

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