The keratin-related Ouroboros proteins function as immune antigens mediating tail regression in Xenopus metamorphosis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 43, 2009, Pages 18309-18314

  Mukaigasa, Katsuki ^a   Hanasaki, Akira ^a   Maéno, Mitsugu ^a   Fujii, Hiroshi ^a   Hayashida, Shin Ichiro ^a   Itoh, Mari ^b   Kobayashi, Makoto ^c   Tochinai, Shin ^d   Hatta, Masayuki ^e   Iwabuchi, Kazuya ^d   Taira, Masanori ^b   Onoé, Kazunori ^d   Izutsu, Yumi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Cell death; Remodeling; Skin; T cell

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; KERATIN; OURO 1 PROTEIN; OURO 2 PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; ISOGRAFT; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; METAMORPHOSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SELF DEFENSE; SKIN CULTURE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TADPOLE; TAIL; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANTIGENS; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; KERATINS; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SKIN; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TAIL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70849096021     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0708837106     Document Type: Article

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