Evolutionarily conserved TCR binding sites, identification of T cells in primary lymphoid tissues, and surprising trans-rearrangements in nurse shark

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 184, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 6950-6960

  Criscitiello, Michael F ^a,b,c   Ohta, Yuko ^a   Saltis, Mark ^a   McKinney, E Churchill ^a   Flajnik, Martin F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MESSENGER RNA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR DELTA CHAIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NURSE SHARK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; VDJ EXON; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHARK;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REARRANGEMENT, ALPHA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENE REARRANGEMENT, DELTA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHARKS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 77953646925     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0902774     Document Type: Article

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