The complexity of expressed kappa light chains in egg-laying mammals

Immunogenetics

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 555-563

  Nowak, Melissa A ^a   Parra, Zuly E ^a   Hellman, Lars ^b   Miller, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Evolution; Immunoglobulin light chains; Monotreme

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHIDNA; EGG LAYING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MONOTREMATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLATYPUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; ECHIDNA; GENE LIBRARY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CONSTANT REGIONS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLATYPUS;

MAMMALIA; MONOTREMATA; ORNITHORHYNCHUS ANATINUS; PTEROMYLAEUS BOVINUS; TACHYGLOSSUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 10944270616     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-004-0720-z     Document Type: Article

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