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Characterization of Ixodes ricinus Fibrinogen-Related Proteins (Ixoderins) Discloses Their Function in the Tick Innate Immunity

Ticks are important vectors of serious human and animal disease-causing organisms, but their innate immunity can fight invading pathogens and may have the ability to reduce or block transmission to mammalian hosts. Lectins, sugar-binding proteins, can distinguish between self and non-self-oligosacch...

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Autores principales: Honig Mondekova, Helena, Sima, Radek, Urbanova, Veronika, Kovar, Vojtech, Rego, Ryan O. M., Grubhoffer, Libor, Kopacek, Petr, Hajdusek, Ondrej
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5727070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29276701
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2017.00509