The structures of two salivary proteins from the West Nile vector Culex quinquefasciatus reveal a beta-trefoil fold with putative sugar binding properties

Female mosquitoes require blood meals for egg development. The saliva of blood feeding arthropods contains biochemically active molecules, whose anti-hemostatic and anti-inflammatory properties facilitate blood feeding on vertebrate hosts. While transcriptomics has presented new opportunities to inv...

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Autores principales: Kern, Olivia, Valenzuela Leon, Paola Carolina, Gittis, Apostolos G., Bonilla, Brian, Cruz, Phillip, Chagas, Andrezza Campos, Ganesan, Sundar, Ribeiro, Jose M.C., Garboczi, David N., Martin-Martin, Ines, Calvo, Eric
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8244437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34235489
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crstbi.2021.03.001

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