A conserved gene cluster as a putative functional unit in insect innate immunity

FEBS Letters

Volumn 584, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 4375-4378

  Somogyi, Kálmán ^a   Sipos, Botond ^a   Pénzes, Zsolt ^a,b   Andó, István ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Ance; Centaurin gamma; Gene cluster; Immune response; Nimrod; Vajk

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; NIMROD PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IMMUNOMODULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INSECT GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NIMROD GENE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENOME, INSECT; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

ARTHROPODA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA;

EID: 78049309000     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.10.014     Document Type: Article

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