The immune gene repertoire encoded in the purple sea urchin genome

Developmental Biology

Volumn 300, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 349-365

  Hibino, Taku ^a   Loza Coll, Mariano ^a   Messier, Cynthia ^a   Majeske, Audrey J ^b   Cohen, Avis H ^c   Terwilliger, David P ^b   Buckley, Katherine M ^b   Brockton, Virginia ^b   Nair, Sham V ^d   Berney, Kevin ^e   Fugmann, Sebastian D ^f   Anderson, Michele K ^a   Pancer, Zeev ^g   Cameron, R Andrew ^e   Smith, L Courtney ^b   Rast, Jonathan P ^a  

^a Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre   (Canada)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complement; Cytokine; Developmental immunology; Echinoderm; Hematopoiesis; Innate immunity; NOD; RAG; Scavenger receptor; TLR

Indexed keywords

LECTIN; RAG1 PROTEIN; RAG2 PROTEIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT ALTERNATIVE PATHWAY; CYTOPLASM; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOBIOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA URCHIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VERTEBRATE;

BILATERIA; ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; GNATHOSTOMATA (VERTEBRATE); PROTOSTOMIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33751549306     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2006.08.065     Document Type: Article

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