Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 101, No. 27 (Jul. 6, 2004), pp. 10127-10131 (5 pages) The lectin complement pathway in innate immunity is closely ...
Lectins, which are carbohydrate-binding proteins, are important in innate immunity because they are able to recognize a wide range of pathogens. Two classes of collagenous lectin — mannose-binding ...
The lectin pathway is the third pathway in the complement cascade, discovered after the classical and alternative pathways. It more closely resembles the classical pathway due to similar binding ...