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Insect glycobiology: a lectin multigene family in Drosophila melanogaster
U Theopold1, M Rissler, M Fabbri
1Department of Applied and Molecular Ecology, University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Glen Osmond 5064, South Australia, Australia. uli.theopold@adelaide.edu
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
|August 12, 1999
Abstract:
Glycodeterminants play an important role in mediating cellular and cell-substrate interactions during development and immune-related reactions enabling an organism to distinguish self determinants from non-self or modified-self determinants. One of the hallmarks of sugar recognition molecules (lectins) is their wide range of binding activities and their organisation in multigene families. Here we describe a group of Drosophila genes that are possible members of the C-type lectin family.