Chitinases and immunity: Ancestral molecules with new functions

Immunobiology

Volumn 221, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 399-411

  Di Rosa, Michelino ^a   Distefano, Gisella ^a   Zorena, Katarzyna ^b   Malaguarnera, Lucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Chitinase 3 like 1; Chitinase 3 like 2; Chitotriosidase; Immune response; Stabilin interacting chitinase like proteins

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; CHITINASE 3 LIKE 1 PROTEIN; CHITINASE 3 LIKE 2 PROTEIN; CHITOTRIOSIDASE; STABILIN INTERACTING CHITINASE LIKE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BETA N ACETYLHEXOSAMINIDASE; CARRIER PROTEIN; ISOENZYME; PROTEIN BINDING;

ARTICLE; DENDRITIC CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOREGULATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TH2 CELL; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHITINASES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEXOSAMINIDASES; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; ISOENZYMES; PROTEIN BINDING;

EID: 84957940007     PISSN: 01712985     EISSN: 18783279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imbio.2015.11.014     Document Type: Review

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