Molecular cloning, structural analysis and expression of complement component Bf/C2 genes in the nurse shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1168-1182

  Shin, Dong Ho ^a   Webb, Barbara ^a   Nakao, Miki ^b   Smith, Sylvia L ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complement C2; Evolution; Factor B; Gene cloning; Ginglymostoma cirratum; Phylogenetics; Shark complement

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE COMPLEMENT PATHWAY C3 C5 CONVERTASE; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C2; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MANNAN BINDING LECTIN ASSOCIATED SERINE PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GLYCOSYLATION; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SHARK; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

CHONDRICHTHYES; GINGLYMOSTOMA CIRRATUM; GINGLYMOSTOMATIDAE; MAMMALIA; OSTEICHTHYES; TRIAKIS SCYLLIUM;

EID: 35348858079     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2007.03.001     Document Type: Article

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