The structures of two salivary proteins from the West Nile vector Culex quinquefasciatus reveal a beta-trefoil fold with putative sugar binding properties
Female mosquitoes require blood meals for egg development. The saliva of blood feeding arthropods contains biochemically active molecules, whose anti-hemostatic and anti-inflammatory properties facilitate blood feeding on vertebrate hosts. While transcriptomics has presented new opportunities to inv...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2021-01-01
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Series: | Current Research in Structural Biology |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665928X21000040 |