Going adaptive: The saga of antibodies

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1168, Issue , 2009, Pages 130-155

  Danilova, Nadia ^a   Amemiya, Chris T ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive immune system; Antibody; Evolution; IgA; IgD; IgG4; IgM; IgW; IgZ; TCR; VLR

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN D; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN H; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN W; IMMUNOGLOBULIN Z; LEUCINE; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALPHA HELIX; ANTIBODY COMBINING SITE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIBODY STRUCTURE; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; B LYMPHOCYTE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOME; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONTOGENY; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TELEOST; VERTEBRATE; VIGNETTE;

TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 67649637380     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04881.x     Document Type: Review

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