Identification of diversified genes that contain immunoglobin-like variable regions in a protochordate

Nature Immunology

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1200-1207

  Cannon, John P ^a,b   Haire, Robert N ^c   Litman, Gary W ^a,b,c  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; CHITIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SECRETORY PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHORDATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SECRETION; VALIDATION PROCESS; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ECHINODERMATA; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC;

EID: 0036915521     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni849     Document Type: Article

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