Functional adaptive diversity of the Atlantic salmon T-cell receptor gamma locus

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2150-2157

  Yazawa, Ryosuke ^a   Cooper, Glenn A ^a   Beetz Sargent, Marianne ^a   Robb, Adrienne ^a   McKinnel, Linda ^a   Davidson, William S ^b   Koop, Ben F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MYOSIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GAMMA CHAIN;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC SALMON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONE CELLS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, GAMMA-DELTA; SALMO SALAR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

SALMO SALAR; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 40149096960     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2007.12.007     Document Type: Article

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