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Identification of mucins and their expression in the vector mosquitoAedes albopictus
18 Nov 2020
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Mucins, the main structural components of vertebrate respiratory, digestive and reproductive tract mucus, as well as insect peritrophic matrix, play important roles in protecting host cells from invading microbes and difficult external environments. Mucins are characterized by highly glycosylated proteins constituting the mucin domain that is rich in repetitive sequences of threonine, serine, and proline (PTS)....
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