A Short-Form C-Type Lectin from Amphioxus Acts as a Direct Microbial Killing Protein via Interaction with Peptidoglycan and Glucan

Abstract To investigate the evolution and immune function of C-type lectin in amphioxus, the primitive representative of the chordate phylum, we identified three C-type lectins consisting solely of a carbohydrate recognition domain and N-terminal signal peptide and found that they had distinct expre...

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Hauptverfasser: Yanhong Yu, Yingcai Yu, Huiqing Huang, Kaixia Feng, Minming Pan, Shaochun Yuan, Shengfeng Huang, Tao Wu, Lei Guo, Meiling Dong, Shangwu Chen, Anlong Xu
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2007
Online-Zugang:https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.179.12.8425
https://journals.aai.org/jimmunol/article-pdf/179/12/8425/1242708/zim02407008425.pdf
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