Computational Analyses of an Evolutionary Arms Race between Mammalian Immunity Mediated by Immunoglobulin A and Its Subversion by Bacterial Pathogens

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Pinheiro, Ana ^a,b,c   Woof, Jenny M ^d   Abi Rached, Laurent ^e   Parham, Peter ^f   Esteves, Pedro J ^a,g  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO E FORMAÇÃO AVANÇADA EM CIÊNCIAS E TECNOLOGIAS DA SAÚDE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; CLIENT SERVER APPLICATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMATE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CODON; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; MAMMALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84883416965     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073934     Document Type: Article

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