Genomic analysis of immunity in a Urochordate and the emergence of the vertebrate immune system: "waiting for Godot"

Immunogenetics

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 570-581

  Azumi, Kaoru ^a   De Santis, Rosaria ^b   De Tomaso, Anthony ^c   Rigoutsos, Isidore ^d   Yoshizaki, Fumiko ^e   Pinto, Maria Rosaria ^b   Marino, Rita ^b   Shida, Kazuhito ^f   Ikeda, Makoto ^f   Ikeda, Masami ^g   Arai, Masafumi ^g   Inoue, Yasuhito ^g   Shimizu, Toshio ^g   Satoh, Nori ^h   Rokhsar, Daniel S ⁱ   Du Pasquier, Louis ^j   Kasahara, Masanori ^k   Satake, Masanobu ^f   Nonaka, Masaru ^e  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^k GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Evolution; Genome analysis; Immunological genes; Urochordate

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; GENE MAPPING; IMMUNOGENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CYTOKINES; GENES, MHC CLASS I; GENES, MHC CLASS II; GENOME; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; INVERTEBRATA; PROTOZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0242476502     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-003-0606-5     Document Type: Article

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