Characterization and expression analysis of an interleukin-7 homologue in the Japanese pufferfish, Takifugu rubripes

FEBS Journal

Volumn 275, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1213-1226

  Kono, Tomoya ^a   Bird, Steve ^b   Sonoda, Kohei ^a   Savan, Ram ^c   Secombes, Christopher J ^b   Sakai, Masahiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome synteny; Interleukin 7 (IL 7); Quantitative real time PCR; Structural analysis; Takifugu rubripes (Fugu)

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 21; INTERLEUKIN 7; INTERLEUKIN 9; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; POLYINOSINIC POLYCYTIDYLIC ACID; VALINE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CELL STIMULATION; CHICKEN; EXON; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GILL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTESTINE; INTRON; KIDNEY; LIVER; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUFFER FISH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPLEEN; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTENY; TELEOST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; FISH PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ORDER; GENOME; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-7; INTRONS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SYNTENY; TAKIFUGU;

MAMMALIA; TAKIFUGU; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; TELEOSTEI; TETRAODONTIDAE;

EID: 40349087403     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2008.06281.x     Document Type: Article

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