"Lactoferrin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An iron-binding protein that was originally characterized as a milk protein. It is widely distributed in secretory fluids and is found in the neutrophilic granules of LEUKOCYTES. The N-terminal part of lactoferrin possesses a serine protease which functions to inactivate the TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM used by bacteria to export virulence proteins for host cell invasion.
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D007781
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D08.811.277.656.300.760.471 D08.811.277.656.959.350.471 D12.776.157.427.750.249 D12.776.256.626.816.500.507 D12.776.377.457.507 D12.776.395.507 D12.776.556.579.750.249
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