Ikaros Family Members from the Agnathan Myxine glutinosa and the Urochordate Oikopleura dioica: Emergence of an Essential Transcription Factor for Adaptive Immunity

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 171, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 6006-6013

  Cupit, Pauline M ^a   Hansen, John D ^b   McCarty, Aaron S ^c   White, Greg ^a   Chioda, Mariacristina ^a   Spada, Fabio ^a   Smale, Stephen T ^a   Cunningham, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; IKAROS FAMILY LIKE PROTEIN; PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOFILTRATION; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; EVOLUTION; FOOD; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GILL; HAGFISH; HATCHING; IMMUNITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTESTINE; INVERTEBRATE; JAW; LIFESPAN; MOLECULE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYXINE GLUTINOSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OIKOPLEURA DIOICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATE; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

EID: 0344585439     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.171.11.6006     Document Type: Article

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