Alternative complement activity in the egg cytosol of amphioxus Branchiostoma belcheri: Evidence for the defense role of maternal complement components

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Liang, Yujun ^a   Zhang, Shicui ^a   Wang, Zhiping ^a,b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HEBEI   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT; ALTERNATIVE COMPLEMENT PATHWAY C3 C5 CONVERTASE; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIOSTASIS; COMPLEMENT ALTERNATIVE PATHWAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; INFECTION PREVENTION; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; LISTONELLA ANGUILLARUM; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHORDATA; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OOCYTE; VIBRIO;

BRANCHIOSTOMA BELCHERI; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; INVERTEBRATA; LISTONELLA ANGUILLARUM; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANIMALS; CHORDATA; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; COMPLEMENT C3; COMPLEMENT FACTOR B; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; CYTOSOL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIBRIO;

EID: 58849113149     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004234     Document Type: Article

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