Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 30.
Published in final edited form as: Vaccine. 2008 Dec 30;26(Suppl 8):I15–I21. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2008.11.023

Table 2.

Specificity of C3b Attachment

Compound Relative Reactivity*
Water 1
Inositol 56
Fucose 179
Glucose 336
Galactose 360
Serine 366
NAc-Glucosamine 462
Mannose 491
Xylose 674
Threonice 1,575
Tyrosine 17,273
*

The reactive thioester of activated C3 (nascent C3b) covalently reacts with hydoxyl groups in the compounds listed above. Relative reactivcities were calculated from the IC50 concentrations. Note that amino acids exhibited similar reactivities after incorporation into peptides.