Variability and Action Mechanism of a Family of Anticomplement Proteins in Ixodes ricinus

Bernard Couvreur; Jérôme Beaufays; Cédric Charon; Kathia Lahaye; François Gensale; Valérie Denis; Benoît Charloteaux; Yves Decrem; Pierre-Paul Prévôt; Michel Brossard; Luc Vanhamme; Edmond Godfroid

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001400

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Variability and Action Mechanism of a Family of Anticomplement Proteins in Ixodes ricinus

Bernard Couvreur ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Bernard Couvreur, Jérôme Beaufays, Cédric Charon

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Ectoparasites, Institut de Biologie et de Médecine Moléculaires (IBMM), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium
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Jérôme Beaufays ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Bernard Couvreur, Jérôme Beaufays, Cédric Charon

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Ectoparasites, Institut de Biologie et de Médecine Moléculaires (IBMM), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium
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Cédric Charon ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Bernard Couvreur, Jérôme Beaufays, Cédric Charon

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Ectoparasites, Institut de Biologie et de Médecine Moléculaires (IBMM), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium
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Kathia Lahaye,

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Ectoparasites, Institut de Biologie et de Médecine Moléculaires (IBMM), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium
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François Gensale,

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Ectoparasites, Institut de Biologie et de Médecine Moléculaires (IBMM), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium
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Valérie Denis,

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Ectoparasites, Institut de Biologie et de Médecine Moléculaires (IBMM), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium
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Benoît Charloteaux,

Affiliation Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire Numérique, Gembloux Agricultural University, Gembloux, Belgium
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Yves Decrem,

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Ectoparasites, Institut de Biologie et de Médecine Moléculaires (IBMM), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium
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Pierre-Paul Prévôt,

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Ectoparasites, Institut de Biologie et de Médecine Moléculaires (IBMM), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium
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Michel Brossard,

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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Luc Vanhamme,

Affiliations Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Ectoparasites, Institut de Biologie et de Médecine Moléculaires (IBMM), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium, Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology, Institut de Biologie et de Médecine Moléculaires (IBMM), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium
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Edmond Godfroid

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: edmond.godfroid@ulb.ac.be

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Ectoparasites, Institut de Biologie et de Médecine Moléculaires (IBMM), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium
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Variability and Action Mechanism of a Family of Anticomplement Proteins in Ixodes ricinus

Bernard Couvreur,
Jérôme Beaufays,
Cédric Charon,
Kathia Lahaye,
François Gensale,
Valérie Denis,
Benoît Charloteaux,
Yves Decrem,
Pierre-Paul Prévôt,
Michel Brossard

Published: January 2, 2008
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001400

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Change of affiliation

Posted by B_Couvreur on 06 Feb 2013 at 15:18 GMT

The affiliation of Bernard Couvreur (first author) has changed from "Université Libre de Bruxelles" to :

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email : bernard.couvreur@invivo.be

No competing interests declared.

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