Microbe-specific C3b deposition in the horseshoe crab complement system in a C2/factor B-dependent or -independent manner

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Tagawa, Keisuke ^a   Yoshihara, Toyoki ^a   Shibata, Toshio ^a   Kitazaki, Kazuki ^a   Endo, Yuichi ^b   Fujita, Teizo ^b   Koshiba, Takumi ^a   Kawabata, Shun ichiro ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C2; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3B; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT TTC2 BF 1; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT TTC2 BF 2; FACTOR C; LECTIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MAGNESIUM ION; PLASMA LECTIN 1; PROTEINASE; TACHYLECTIN 5A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ALTERNATIVE COMPLEMENT PATHWAY C3 C5 CONVERTASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MAGNESIUM;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; COMPLEMENT DEPOSITION; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; FUNGUS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEMOLYMPH; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; TACHYPLEUS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; GENETICS; HORSESHOE CRAB; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; MEROSTOMATA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; TACHYPLEUS; TACHYPLEUS TRIDENTATUS;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; COMPLEMENT C2; COMPLEMENT C3B; COMPLEMENT FACTOR B; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; FUNGI; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HORSESHOE CRABS; MAGNESIUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84860643890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036783     Document Type: Article

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