Latherin: A surfactant protein of horse sweat and saliva

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  McDonald, Rhona E ^a   Fleming, Rachel I ^a   Beeley, John G ^a   Bovell, Douglas L ^b   Lu, Jian R ^c   Zhao, Xiubo ^c   Cooper, Alan ^a   Kennedy, Malcolm W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLOBULAR PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; LATHERIN; PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LATHERIN PROTEIN, EQUUS CABALLUS; SURFACTANT; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DNA DETERMINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HORSE; MASTICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUTH CAVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVA; SALIVARY GLAND; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURFACE TENSION; SWEAT; THERMOREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOPHYSICS; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEUTRON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS HEMIONUS; EQUUS SUBG. HIPPOTIGRIS; MAMMALIA;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; FLUORESCENCE; HORSES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUTRONS; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SALIVA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SURFACE TENSION; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; SWEAT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 66749098317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005726     Document Type: Article

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