Granzyme-like sequences in bony fish shed light on the emergence of hematopoietic serine proteases during vertebrate evolution

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 901-918

  Wernersson, Sara ^a   Reimer, Jenny M ^a   Poorafshar, Maryam ^a   Karlson, Ulrika ^a   Wermenstam, Niklas ^a   Bengtén, Eva ^b   Wilson, Melanie ^b   Pilström, Lars ^a   Hellman, Lars ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Atlantic cod; Channel catfish; Granzyme; Molecular evolution; Protein phylogeny; Serine protease; Teleost

Indexed keywords

ADIPSIN; AZUROCIDIN; CATHEPSIN G; CHYMASE; ELASTASE; GRANZYME A; GRANZYME B; MAST CELL PROTEASE 8; MYELOBLASTIN; PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC COD; CHANNEL CATFISH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FISH; GENOMICS; MAST CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE; TELEOST; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ACTINOPTERYGII; GADUS MORHUA; ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS; MAMMALIA; OSTEICHTHYES; TELEOSTEI; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33746110374     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2005.10.014     Document Type: Article

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