Protein phylogenies provide evidence of a radical discontinuity between arthropod and vertebrate immune systems

Immunogenetics

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 283-296

  Hughes, Austin L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemolin; Hitric oxide synthetase; Innate immunity; Invertebrate immunity; Natural resistance associated macrophage protein

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; LYSOZYME; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INSECT; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CHITINASE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; INSECT PROTEINS; IRON-BINDING PROTEINS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MURAMIDASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SERPINS; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; VERTEBRATES;

ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031882369     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050360     Document Type: Article

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