Intron-containing type I and type III IFN coexist in amphibians: Refuting the concept that a retroposition event gave rise to type I IFNs

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 184, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 5038-5046

  Qi, Zhitao ^a,b   Nie, Pin ^a   Secombes, Chris J ^c   Zou, Jun ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b YANCHENG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; ALPHA INTERFERON RECEPTOR; BETA INTERFERON; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GAMMA INTERFERON RECEPTOR; INTERFERON; INTERFERON III; INTERLEUKIN 10 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 20; INTERLEUKIN 22; INTERLEUKIN 29; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CYTOKINE; POLYINOSINIC POLYCYTIDYLIC ACID; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOME; HOST RESISTANCE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRON; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPTILE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPLEEN CELL; UPREGULATION; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPLEEN; SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE I; INTERFERONS; INTRONS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLY I-C; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPLEEN; UP-REGULATION; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 77954520433     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0903374     Document Type: Article

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