How did the primordial T cell receptor and MHC molecules function initially?

Immunology and Cell Biology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 193-196

  Kurosawa, Yoshikazu ^a   Hashimoto, Keiichiro ^a  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

diversity; DNA rearrangements; elasmobranchs; evolution; major histocompatibility complex; polymorphism; T cell receptor

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MESSENGER RNA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

BIODIVERSITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EVOLUTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GRAFT REJECTION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTOR GENE; SHARK;

EID: 0030891034     PISSN: 08189641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/icb.1997.28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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