Comprehensive survey and genomic characterization of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) in channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus: Identification of novel fish TLRs

Immunogenetics

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 511-530

  Quiniou, Sylvie M A ^a   Boudinot, Pierre ^b   Bengtén, Eva ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel catfish; Innate immunity; LRR; TLR25; TLR26; Toll like receptor

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; LEUCINE RICH REPEAT KINASE 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 1; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 10; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 11; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 12; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 13; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 15; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 19; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 20; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 22; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 23; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 24; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 25; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 26; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 3; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 5; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 6; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 7; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 8; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHANNEL CATFISH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA MINING; DNA BINDING; EXON; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOMICS; INTRON; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; FISHES; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; ICTALURIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; VERTEBRATES;

ADRIANICHTHYIDAE; CICHLIDAE; CYPRINIDAE; ICTALURIDAE; ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS; OSMERIDAE; SALMONIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84879301962     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: 14321211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-013-0694-9     Document Type: Article

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