Discovery of a new class of immunoglobulin heavy chain from fugu

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3320-3331

  Savan, Ram ^a   Aman, Azumi ^a   Sato, Kenji ^b   Yamaguchi, Ryoji ^b   Sakai, Masahiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Expression; Fish; IgH locus; Immunoglobulin

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUFFER FISH; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HINGE EXONS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CONSTANT REGIONS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ISOTYPES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TAKIFUGU;

EID: 27944452203     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eji.200535248     Document Type: Article

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