Discovery of zebrafish (Danio rerio) interleukin-23 alpha (IL-23α) chain, a subunit important for the formation of IL-23, a cytokine involved in the development of Th17 cells and inflammation

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 981-991

  Holt, Amy ^a   Mitra, Suman ^a   van der Sar, Astrid M ^b   Alnabulsi, Ayham ^a   Secombes, Chris J ^a   Bird, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Comparative immunology; IL 23 ; Molecular biology; Mycobacterium; P19; T cells; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE; INTERLEUKIN 12P40; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 23 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 23P19; PAB DEPENDENT POLYADENYLIC ACID SPECIFIC RIBONUCLEASE SUBUNIT 2; RIBONUCLEASE; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CHROMOSOME 12; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISULFIDE BOND; EXON; FISH DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE; INTRON; KIDNEY; LEUKOCYTE; LIVER; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUSCLE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNTENY; TH17 CELL; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 12; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; INTERLEUKIN-23 SUBUNIT P19; LEUKOCYTES; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYNTENY; TH17 CELLS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA; MYCOBACTERIUM; TAKIFUGU; TELEOSTEI; TETRAODON;

EID: 79952444749     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2010.12.012     Document Type: Article

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