Molecular characterisation and expression of CD4 in two distantly related marsupials: The gray short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica) and tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii)

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 44, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 3641-3652

  Duncan, Louise G ^a   Nair, Sham V ^a   Deane, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

CD4; Macropus eugenii; Marsupial; Monodelphis domestica; T cells

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CD4 ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDE; PROTEIN P56; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; DISULFIDE BOND; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOME; MACROPUS EUGENII; MALE; MARSUPIAL; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPOSSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNTENY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HUMANS; MACROPODIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONODELPHIS; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

DIDELPHIDAE; EUTHERIA; MACROPUS EUGENII; METATHERIA; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA;

EID: 34249282383     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2007.04.013     Document Type: Article

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