Unexpected diversity displayed in cDNAs expressed by the immune cells of the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 134-144

  Terwilliger, David P ^a   Buckley, Katherine M ^a   Mehta, Dhruti ^b   Moorjani, Priya G ^a,c   Smith, L Courtney ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Coelomocytes; Echinoderm; Innate immunity

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEA URCHIN; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS PURPURATUS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ECHINOIDEA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS PURPURATUS;

EID: 33745967536     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00011.2006     Document Type: Article

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