IrFC - An Ixodes ricinus injury-responsive molecule related to Limulus Factor C

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 439-447

  Urbanová, Veronika ^a   Hartmann, David ^b   Grunclová, Lenka ^a   Šíma, Radek ^a   Flemming, Tina ^a   Hajdušek, Ondřej ^a   Kopáček, Petr ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Complement; Innate immunity; Limulus clotting factor C; Phagocytosis; RNA interference; Tick ixodes ricinus

Indexed keywords

IRFC; LIMULUS CLOTTING FACTOR C; MESSENGER RNA; SERINE PROTEINASE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TICK FACTOR C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARTHROPOD PROTEIN; COMPLEMENT; ENZYME PRECURSOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; C TERMINAL TRYPSIN TYPE DOMAIN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHRYSEOBACTERIUM INDOLOGENES; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FOUR COMPLEMENT CONTROL PROTEIN (SUSHI) MODULE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEMOLYMPH; HORSESHOE CRAB; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IXODES RICINUS; LCCL DOMAIN; MALE; N TERMINAL CYSTEINE RICH DOMAIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRUNCATED C LECTIN DOMAIN; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BORRELIA; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD PROTEINS; BORRELIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; ENZYME PRECURSORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNITY, INNATE; IXODES; MALE; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84902971602     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: 18790089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2014.05.016     Document Type: Article

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