Macroarray analysis of coelomocyte gene expression in response to LPS in the sea urchin. Identification of unexpected immune diversity in an invertebrate

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 22, Issue , 2005, Pages 33-47

  Nair, Sham V ^a   Del Valle, Heather ^a   Gross, Paul S ^b   Terwilliger, David P ^a   Smith, L Courtney ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

185 333; Echinoderm; Innate; Lipopolysaccharide

Indexed keywords

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA PROBE; ECHINODERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; SEA URCHIN; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS; SUBTRACTIVE HYBRIDIZATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOSKELETON; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNITY, INNATE; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SEA URCHINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHORDATA; ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS PURPURATUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 24944585768     PISSN: 15312267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00052.2005     Document Type: Article

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