Title : Surfactant protein A (SP-A) mediates attachment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to murine alveolar macrophages.

Pub. Date : 1997 Aug

PMID : 9271309






3 Functional Relationships(s)
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1 Surfactant protein A (SP-A) is a nonimmune opsonin present in the alveolar spaces that binds carbohydrate residues such as mannose. Carbohydrates surfactant associated protein A1 Mus musculus
2 Surfactant protein A (SP-A) is a nonimmune opsonin present in the alveolar spaces that binds carbohydrate residues such as mannose. Mannose surfactant associated protein A1 Mus musculus
3 Further, deglycosylated SP-A had minimal binding to M. tuberculosis, indicating that sugar moieties are important in this interaction. Sugars surfactant associated protein A1 Mus musculus