Immunoglobulin genes and their transcriptional control in teleosts

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 924-936

  Hikima, Jun Ichi ^a   Jung, Tae Sung ^a   Aoki, Takashi ^a,b  

^a Gyeongsang National University   (South Korea)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

E 3' enhancer; Immunoglobulin gene; Multicluster; Teleosts; Transcription factor; Translocon

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DELTA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL SPECIFICITY; COMPUTER MODEL; ENHANCER REGION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELEOST; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VDJ EXON; VERTEBRATE;

GNATHOSTOMATA (VERTEBRATE); TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79959570384     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: 0145305X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2010.10.011     Document Type: Review

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