Antigen processing and presentation: Evolution from a bird's eye view

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 159-161

  Kaufman, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antigen presentation; Antigen processing; Bird; Chicken; Class I; Evolution, Adaptive immunity; Major histocompatibility complex; MHC; Non mammalian; TAP; Tapasin; Transporters associated with antigen presentation; Vertebrate

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; TAPASIN;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALLELE; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CHROMOSOME; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHICKENS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84875615600     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: 18729142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2012.10.030     Document Type: Review

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