| Contents |
Section 1. Antibodies. Chapter 1. R.R. Porter and the structure of antibodies / Lisa A. Steiner and Julian B. Fleischman -- Chapter 2. Chemical engineering of therapeutic antibodies / George T. Stevenson and Weng Leong -- Section 2. The complement system. Chapter 3. The evolution of complement systems / Alister W. Dodds -- Chapter 4. Structure and function of the C1 complex : a historical perspective / Gérard J. Arlaud -- Chapter 5. Complement components C3 and C4 / S.K. Alex Law -- Chapter 6. Complement control proteins and receptors from FH to CR4 / Robert B. Sim ... [et al.] -- Chapter 7. Biology and genetics of complement C4 / Michael C. Carroll -- Section 3. Collectins and ficolins in innate immunity. Chapter 8. The structure of Mannan-binding lectin and its functional relevance / Jinhua Lu and Steffen Thiel -- Chapter 9. Personal accounts of the discovery of MASP-2 and its role in the MBL pathway of complement activation / Thomas Vorup-Jensen and Jens Chr. Jensenius -- Chapter 10. The structure and function of ficolins, MBLs and MASPs / Russell Wallis, Anders Krarup and Umakhanth Venkatraman Girija -- Chapter 11. Surfactant protein D and glycoprotein 340 / Jens Madsen and Uffe Holmskov -- Section 4. Cell surface proteins : immunoglobulin superfamily and integrins. Chapter 12. Leukocyte surface proteins : purification and characterization / A. Neil Barclay -- Chapter 13. Cell surface integrins / Suet-Mien Tan and S.K. Alex Law -- Section 5. Immunogenetics and major histocompatibility complex class III analysis. Chapter 14. Molecular genetics of the major histocompatibility complex class III region / R. Duncan Campbell, Wendy Thomson and Bernard Morley -- Chapter 15. Functional characterization of major histocompatibility complex class III region genes / R. Duncan Campbell, Caroline M. Milner and Begona Aguado -- Section 6. Hyaluronan-binding proteins in inflammation. Chapter 16. Hyaluronan-bind proteins in inflammation / Anthony J. Day ... [et al.] -- Subject index. |
