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Structural analysis and lipid-binding properties of recombinant human surfactant protein a derived from one or both genes.
Biochemistry - 26 Nov 2002
García-Verdugo I, Wang G, Floros J, Casals C
Abstract excerpt
Surfactant protein A (SP-A) constitutes an important part of the innate immune defense in the lung. In humans there are two functional genes (SP-A1 and SP-A2). The functional importance of having two distinct chain types in human SP-A is undefined. Amino acid substitutions in the primary structur...
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