A novel human tectonin protein with multivalent β-propeller folds interacts with ficolin and binds bacterial LPS

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Low, Diana Hooi Ping ^a,b   Ang, Zhiwei ^b   Yuan, Quan ^b   Frecer, Vladimir ^c,d   Ho, Bow ^b   Chen, Jianzhu ^a,e   Ding, Jeak Ling ^a,b  

^a SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c AREA Science Park   (Italy)

^d CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; FIBRINOGEN; FICOLIN; GALAPTIN; TECTONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LECTIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TECTONIN I;

ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INVERTEBRATA; LIMULUS; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HUMANS; LECTINS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 67650888564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006260     Document Type: Article

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