Complement Inhibitor of C5 Activation from the Soft Tick Ornithodoros moubata
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Complement inhibitor of C5 activation from the soft tick Ornithodoros moubata.
Blood-feeding ticks must control C activation or be damaged by the host inflammatory response. We report the characterization and expression of a novel, relatively small, broad-acting C inhibitory protein (termed OmCI) from the soft tick Ornithodoros moubata. The native 17-kDa nonglycosylated protein inhibits both human and guinea pig classical and alternative C activation pathways. The IC50 va...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Immunology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0022-1767,1550-6606
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.174.4.2084