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Abstract
The saliva of blood-feeding arthropods contains rich mixtures of ligand binding proteins targeted at inhibiting hemostasis and inflammation in the host. Since blood feeding has evolved many times, different taxonomic groups utilize completely different families of proteins to perform similar tasks. Structural studies performed on a number of these proteins have revealed biologically novel and sophisticated mechanisms used to perform their functions. Here, the results of these structural and mechanistic studies are reviewed. Published by Elsevier Ltd.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19925819 PMCID: PMC2889010 DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2009.11.002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Toxicon ISSN: 0041-0101 Impact factor: 3.033