Comparative study and expression analysis of the interferon gamma gene locus cytokines in Xenopus tropicalis

Immunogenetics

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 699-710

  Qi, Z T ^a,b,c   Nie, P ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Interferon gamma; Interleukin 22; Interleukin 26; Xenopus tropicalis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 22; INTERLEUKIN 26; POLYINOSINIC POLYCYTIDYLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREGULATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; XENOPUS; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKINS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERTEBRATES; XENOPUS;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

EID: 54049115834     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-008-0326-y     Document Type: Article

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