A tunicate (Botryllus schlosseri) cDNA reveals similarity to vertebrate antigen receptors

Immunogenetics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 69-72

  Pancer, Zeev ^a   Cooper, Edwin L ^b   Müller, Werner E G ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHORDATA; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; UROCHORDATA;

BOTRYLLUS SCHLOSSERI; CHORDATA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029906884     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050169     Document Type: Article

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