Lectins and tick-pathogen interactions: a minireview.
Lectins and their glycosylated receptors in a system of the tick-transmitted pathogen are the addressed topics which the minireview is dealing with. They participate in the reciprocal protein-saccharide interactions in the transmission of the causative agents of the tick-borne encephalitis and Lyme borreliosis by the ticks. Functional significance of the tick tissue specific lectins as well the lectins/aggulutinis of the transmitted pathogens in molecular ecology of the tick borne diseases has been shown.
Grubhoffer
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Institute of Parasitology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Ceské Budĕjovice, Czech Republic. liborex@paru.cas.cz
Jindrák
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D000818:Animals; D001096:Arachnid Vectors; D004675:Encephalitis, Tick-Borne / Q000635:transmission*; D037102:Lectins; D008193:Lyme Disease / Q000635:transmission*; D013987:Ticks
D037102:Lectins