Evolutionary relationships of vertebrate NACHT domain-containing proteins

Immunogenetics

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 785-791

  Hughes, Austin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Immune system evolution; NACHT; NALP; NOD

Indexed keywords

INCOMPATIBILITY LOCUS PROTEIN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; MHC CLASS II TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATOR; NEURONAL APOPTOSIS INHIBITORY PROTEIN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; TELOMERASE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOMERIZATION; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PODOSPORA ANSERINA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VERTEBRATE;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONAL APOPTOSIS-INHIBITORY PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VERTEBRATES;

AVES; MAMMALIA; OSTEICHTHYES; PODOSPORA ANSERINA; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33749682417     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-006-0148-8     Document Type: Article

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