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Encyclopedia > Mannose receptor
mannose receptor, C type 1
Identifiers
Symbol MRC1
HUGO 7228
Entrez 4360
OMIM 153618
RefSeq NM_002438
UniProt P22897
Other data
Locus Chr. 10 p13
mannose receptor, C type 2
Identifiers
Symbol MRC2
HUGO 16875
Entrez 9902
RefSeq NM_006039
UniProt Q9UBG0
Other data
Locus Chr. 17 q23

The mannose receptor is a calcium-dependent lectin. It has been researched as a target for vaccines.[1] Hugo is a masculine name. ... The Entrez logo The Entrez Global Query Cross-Database Search System allows access to databases at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website. ... The Mendelian Inheritance in Man project is a database that catalogues all the known diseases with a genetic component, and - when possible - links them to the relevant genes in the human genome. ... The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), which is a branch of the US National Institutes of Health. ... Swiss-Prot is a curated biological database of protein sequences created in 1986 by Amos Bairoch during his PhD and developed by the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the European Bioinformatics Institute. ... Short and long arms Chromosome. ... Chromosome 10 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. ... Hugo is a masculine name. ... The Entrez logo The Entrez Global Query Cross-Database Search System allows access to databases at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website. ... The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), which is a branch of the US National Institutes of Health. ... Swiss-Prot is a curated biological database of protein sequences created in 1986 by Amos Bairoch during his PhD and developed by the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the European Bioinformatics Institute. ... Short and long arms Chromosome. ... Chromosome 17 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. ... Lectins are a type of receptor proteins of non-immune origin that specifically interact with sugar molecules (carbohydrates) without modifying them. ... A vaccine is an antigenic preparation used to establish immunity to a disease. ...


See also

Mannose is a sugar, one of the hexose series of carbohydrates. ...

References

  1. ^ Keler T, Ramakrishna V, Fanger M (2004). "Mannose receptor-targeted vaccines". Expert Opin Biol Ther 4 (12): 1953-62. PMID 15571457. 

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