Insect glycobiology: a lectin multigene family in Drosophila melanogaster.
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.
Theopold
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Department of Applied and Molecular Ecology, University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Glen Osmond 5064, South Australia, Australia. uli.theopold@adelaide.edu
Rissler
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Fabbri
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Schmidt
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Natori
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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
D037102:Lectins