Partial characterisation of high-molecular weight glycoconjugates in the trail mucus of the freshwater pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 475-486

  Ballance, Simon ^a,b   Howard, Marj ^a   White, Keith N ^a   McCrohan, Catherine R ^a   Thornton, David J ^a   Sheehan, John K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Extracellular glycoconjugates; Gel forming macromolecules; Mollusc

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CESIUM CHLORIDE; DISULFIDE; DNA; GLUCURONIC ACID; GLYCOCONJUGATE; GLYCOPEPTIDE; GUANIDINE; MUCIN; OLIGOMER; PAPAIN; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; PROTEOGLYCAN; SEPHAROSE; SERINE; THREONINE; URONIC ACID; XYLOSE;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; DISULFIDE BOND; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; GEL FILTRATION; LYMNAEA; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORPHOLOGY; MUCUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; SNAIL;

GASTROPODA; LYMNAEA; LYMNAEA STAGNALIS; LYMNAEIDAE; MAMMALIA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 1842714390     PISSN: 10964959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2004.02.002     Document Type: Article

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