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SALO, a novel classical pathway complement inhibitor from saliva of the sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis

Blood-feeding insects inject potent salivary components including complement inhibitors into their host’s skin to acquire a blood meal. Sand fly saliva was shown to inhibit the classical pathway of complement; however, the molecular identity of the inhibitor remains unknown. Here, we identified SALO...

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Autores principales: Ferreira, Viviana P., Fazito Vale, Vladimir, Pangburn, Michael K., Abdeladhim, Maha, Ferreira Mendes-Sousa, Antonio, Coutinho-Abreu, Iliano V., Rasouli, Manoochehr, Brandt, Elizabeth A., Meneses, Claudio, Lima, Kolyvan Ferreira, Nascimento Araújo, Ricardo, Horácio Pereira, Marcos, Kotsyfakis, Michalis, Oliveira, Fabiano, Kamhawi, Shaden, Ribeiro, Jose M. C., Gontijo, Nelder F., Collin, Nicolas, Valenzuela, Jesus G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4725370/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26758086
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep19300