Ficolins: Innate immune recognition proteins for danger sensing

Inmunologia

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 145-156

  Thielens, Nicole ^a   Gaboriaud, C ^a   Arlaud, G J ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

Author keywords

Complement activation; Ficolin; Innate immunity; MASP; Pattern recognition receptor

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; FICOLIN; MANNAN BINDING LECTIN; MANNAN BINDING LECTIN ASSOCIATED SERINE PROTEINASE; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; INNATE IMMUNITY; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REVIEW; SEROTYPE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; T LYMPHOCYTE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 38049004310     PISSN: 02139626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0213-9626(07)70084-7     Document Type: Review

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