Complexity in cattle KIR genes: Transcription and genome analysis

Immunogenetics

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 463-472

  Dobromylskyj, Melanie ^a   Ellis, Shirley ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cattle; Killer immunoglobulin like receptor (KIR); Natural killer (NK) cells

Indexed keywords

2DL1 GENE; ARGININE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE PRODUCT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNORECEPTOR TYROSINE BASED INHIBITORY MOTIF; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR; LYSINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; BOS; PRIMATES; SUIDAE;

EID: 34247585579     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-007-0215-9     Document Type: Article

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