Variable domains in hagfish: NICIR is a polymorphic multigene family expressed preferentially in leukocytes and is related to lamprey TCP-like

Immunogenetics

Volumn 58, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 216-225

  Haruta, Chiaki ^a,b   Suzuki, Takashi ^b,c   Kasahara, Masanori ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c Japan Fisheries Resource Conservation Association   (Japan)

Author keywords

ITAM; ITIM; Jawless vertebrates; NICIR

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; GENE PRODUCT; IMMUNORECEPTOR TYROSINE BASED ACTIVATION MOTIF; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN NICIR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HAGFISH; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; JAW; LAMPREY; LEUKOCYTE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NICIR GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; HAGFISHES; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; LAMPREYS; LEUKOCYTES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL;

ANIMALIA; GNATHOSTOMATA (VERTEBRATE); HAGFISH; PETROMYZONTIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33645459183     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-006-0098-1     Document Type: Article

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