Noritaka Nishida   Thomas Walz   Timothy A Springer   
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103(52) 19737-42 2006年12月 [査読有り]
Complement sensitizes pathogens for phagocytosis and lysis. We use electron microscopy to examine the structural transitions in the activation of the pivotal protein in the complement pathway, C3. In the cleavage product C3b, the position of the t...