Allelic polymorphism of TCRα chain constant domain genes in the bicolor damselfish

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 28, Issue 7-8, 2004, Pages 781-792

  Criscitiello, Michael F ^a,b   Kamper, Sondra M ^a   McKinney, E Churchill ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CART, motif, conserved antigen receptor transmembrane motif; CDR, complementarity determining region; Comparative immunology evolution; FR, framework region; RAG, recombination activating genes; T cell receptors; T lymphocytes

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; ALLELE; ANIMAL; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PERCIFORMES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CHROMIS CHROMIS; STEGASTES PARTITUS; VERTEBRATA;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, T-LYMPHOCYTE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PERCIFORMES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 1642417290     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2003.12.004     Document Type: Article

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