Platypus TCRμ provides insight into the origins and evolution of a uniquely mammalian TCR locus

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 187, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 5246-5254

  Wang, Xinxin ^a   Parra, Zuly E ^a   Miller, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DUCKBILL PLATYPUS; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MONOTREMATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLESIOMORPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TCR MU GENE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC LOCI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLATYPUS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION, IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

EID: 81455141918     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1101113     Document Type: Article

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