Penaeid shrimp

Cloning and molecular modeling of Litopenaeus vannamei (Penaeidae) C-type lectin homologs with mutated mannose binding domain-2

F. H. F. Costa, Valença, N. S. M. S., Silva, A. R. B. P., Bezerra, G. A., Cavada, B. S., and Rádis-Baptista, G., Cloning and molecular modeling of Litopenaeus vannamei (Penaeidae) C-type lectin homologs with mutated mannose binding domain-2, vol. 10, pp. 650-664, 2011.

C-type lectins are animal proteins that contain at least one carbohydrate recognition domain (CRD) capable of mediating sugar and calcium binding. Carbohydrate recognition is directly required for some biological functions, including the innate immune response. We cloned two novel C-type lectin (CTL) precursors from the commercial marine shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei. The cloned cDNAs encompass ORFs of 1044 nucleotides and encode highly similar two-domain polypeptides of 347 residues.

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