Reconstructing an ancestral mammalian immune supercomplex from a marsupial major histocompatibility complex

PLoS Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 0317-0328

  Belov, Katherine ^a   Deakin, Janine E ^b   Papenfuss, Anthony T ^c   Baker, Michelle L ^d   Melman, Sandra D ^d   Siddle, Hannah V ^a   Gouin, Nicolas ^e   Goode, David L ^c   Sargeant, Tobias J ^c   Robinson, Mark D ^c   Wakefield, Matthew J ^c   Mahony, Shaun ^f   Cross, Joseph G R ^b   Benos, Panayiotis V ^g   Samollow, Paul B ^h   Speed, Terence P ^c   Marshall Graves, Jennifer A ^b   Miller, Robert D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^e SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^h TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOME; HUMAN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPOSSUM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METAPHASE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

AVES; DIDELPHIDAE; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MARSUPIALIA; METAPHASE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 33644988716     PISSN: 15457885     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040046     Document Type: Article

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