Complement C5 Convertase, Alternative Pathway
"Complement C5 Convertase, Alternative Pathway" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A serine protease that cleaves multiple COMPLEMENT C5 into COMPLEMENT C5A (anaphylatoxin) and COMPLEMENT C5B in the ALTERNATIVE COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION PATHWAY. It is the complex of ALTERNATIVE PATHWAY C3 CONVERTASE (C3bBb) with an additional COMPLEMENT C3B, or C3bBb3b.
| Descriptor ID |
D051566
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.124.486.274.045.387.500.750
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