A novel human tectonin protein with multivalent beta-propeller folds interacts with ficolin and binds bacterial LPS.

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Published in PLoS One on July 16, 2009

Authors

Diana Hooi Ping Low1, Zhiwei Ang, Quan Yuan, Vladimir Frecer, Bow Ho, Jianzhu Chen, Jeak Ling Ding

Author Affiliations

1: Computational and Systems Biology, Singapore-MIT Alliance, Singapore, Singapore.

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