title: Insect glycobiology: a lectin multigene family in Drosophila melanogaster.
abstract: Glycodeterminants play an important role in mediating cellular and cell-substrate interactions during development and immune-related reactions enabling an organism to distinguish self determinants from non-self or modified-self determinants. One of the hallmarks of sugar recognition molecules (lectins) is their wide range of binding activities and their organisation in multigene families. Here we describe a group of Drosophila genes that are possible members of the C-type lectin family.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied and Molecular Ecology, University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Glen Osmond 5064, South Australia, Australia. uli.theopold@adelaide.edu
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Theopold
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rissler
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fabbri
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Natori
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D016384:Consensus Sequence; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics*; D037102:Lectins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D037102:Lectins