Comment on "the pro-factor D cleaving activity of MASP-1/-3 is not required for alternative pathway function"

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 192, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 5448-5449

  Takahashi, Minoru ^a   Sekine, Hideharu ^a   Fujita, Teizo ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT FACTOR D; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; KALLIKREIN; MANNAN BINDING LECTIN ASSOCIATED SERINE PROTEINASE; MANNAN BINDING LECTIN ASSOCIATED SERINE PROTEINASE 1; MANNAN BINDING LECTIN ASSOCIATED SERINE PROTEINASE 3; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PLASMIN; PROFACTOR D; THROMBIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MODIFICATION; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENETICS; LETTER; MASP 1 GENE; MASP 3 GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; CYTOLYSIS; DISEASE MARKER; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ERYTHROCYTE; MALPUECH MICHELS MINGARELLI CARNEVALE SYNDROME; MASP1 GENE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ANIMALS; BLEPHAROPTOSIS; COMPLEMENT PATHWAY, ALTERNATIVE; COMPLEMENT PATHWAY, MANNOSE-BINDING LECTIN; CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; CRYPTORCHIDISM; EYE ABNORMALITIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HIP DISLOCATION, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MANNOSE-BINDING PROTEIN-ASSOCIATED SERINE PROTEASES; STRABISMUS;

EID: 84902208388     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1490020     Document Type: Letter

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