Isolation and sequence of a cDNA coding for the heavy chain constant region of IgG from the Australian brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 535-541

  Belov, Katherine ^a   Harrison, Gavan A ^b   Miller, Robert D ^c   Cooper, Desmond W ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE ISOLATION; MESENTERY LYMPH NODE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPOSSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CONSTANT REGIONS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; MARSUPIALIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPOSSUMS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ALOPIAS; DIDELPHIDAE; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA; PHALANGERIDAE; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

EID: 0032780913     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-5890(99)00064-4     Document Type: Article

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