Of volatiles and peptides: In search for MHC-dependent olfactory signals in social communication

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 2429-2442

  Overath, Peter ^a   Sturm, Theo ^a,b   Rammensee, Hans Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Individual recognition; Mouse; Polymorphism; Sensory neuron; Single amino acid variation; Urine; Vomeronasal organ

Indexed keywords

ALANYLALANYLPROPYLASPARTYLASPARGINYLARGINYLGLUTAMYLTHREONYLPHENYLALANINE; ALANYLSERYLASPARAGINYLGLUTAMYLASPARAGINYLMETHIONYLGLUTAMYLTHREONYLMETHIONINE; ISOLEUCYLVALYLISOLEUCYLTYROSYLHISTIDINYLTHREONYLSERLYALANYLGLUTAMINYLSERYLISOLEUCYLLEUCINE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; PHENYLALANYLALANYLPROPYLGLYCYLASPARAGINYLTYROSYLPROPYLALANYLLEUCINE; PHENYLALANYLGLUTAMINYLGLYCYLASPARTYLISOLEUCYLLEUCYLLEUCYLPROPYLARGININE; PHENYLALANYLVALYLISOLEUCYLTYROSYLHISTIDINYLTHREONYLSERYLALANYLGLUTAMINYLSERYLISOLEUCYLLEUCINE; POLYPEPTIDE; PROPYLALANYLVALYLCYSTEINYLPHENYLALANYLASPARAGINYLARGINYLPROPYLPHENYLALANYLLEUCINE; PROPYLALANYLVALYLHISTIDINYLPHENYLALANYLASPARAGINYLARGINYLPROPYLPHENYLALANYLLEUCINE; SERYLISOLEUCYLISOLEUCYLASPARAGINYLPHENYLALANYLGLUTAMYLLYSYLLEUCINE; SERYLISOLEUCYLLEUCYLLYSYLTHREONYLASPARTYLTYROSYLASPARTYLASPARAGINYLTYROSYLISOLEUCYLMETHIONINE; SERYLPHENYLALANYLVALYLASPARTYLTHREONYLARGINYLTHREONYLLEUCYLLEUCINE; SERYLTYROSYLISOLEUCYLPROPYLSERYLALANYLGLUTAMYLLYSYLISOLEUCINE; SERYLTYROSYLPHENYLALANYLPROPYLGLUTAMYLISOLEUCYLTHREONYLHISTIDINYLISOLEUCINE; THREONYLISOLEUCYLPROPYLLYSYLTHREONYLASPARTYLTYROSYLASPARTYLASPARAGINYLPHENYLALANYLLEUCYLMETHIONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALYLGLUTAMYLTYROSYLISOLEUCYLHISTIDINYLVALYLLEUCYLGLUTAMYLASPARAGINYLSERYLLEUCINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MATE CHOICE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SNIFFING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

MUS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; GENES, MHC CLASS I; HUMANS; MICE; ODORS; PEPTIDES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SMELL;

EID: 84903271169     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-014-1559-6     Document Type: Review

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