Striking antigen recognition diversity in the Atlantic salmon T-cell receptor α/δ locus

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 204-212

  Yazawa, Ryosuke ^a   Cooper, Glenn A ^a   Hunt, Peter ^a   Beetz Sargent, Marianne ^a   Robb, Adrienne ^a   Conrad, Melanie ^a   McKinnel, Linda ^a   So, Stacy ^a   Jantzen, Stuart ^a   Phillips, Ruth B ^b   Davidson, William S ^c   Koop, Ben F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive immunity; Antigen recognition; Atlantic salmon; Gene rearrangement; T cell receptor locus

Indexed keywords

T CELL RECEPTOR DELTA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC SALMON; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOP CODON;

SALMO SALAR;

EID: 36549032762     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2007.05.002     Document Type: Article

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