Structural Biology of the Complement System

The only in-depth guide on the subject, this reference serves as the first source to present the structural biology of the complement system in connection to immunology and drug development. The book comes with a CD containing color figures, a molecular structure visualization program, and files with three-dimensional coordinates of the structures described in the book. These tools allow readers to perform tailored structural manipulation and analysis and further research on the subject. Combining the latest breakthroughs in structural biology and immunology, this guide provides detailed discussions of the structure-function relationships among complement system components, regulators, receptors, and selected proteins and inhibitors an excellent introduction to the structural bioinformatics classification of complement proteins several figures of the three-dimensional structures of complement proteins and protein complexes 200 clear tables and graphs for reader-friendly presentation of key material