Gut immunity in a protochordate involves a secreted immunoglobulin-type mediator binding host chitin and bacteria

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Dishaw, Larry J ^a   Leigh, Brittany ^b   Cannon, John P ^a   Liberti, Assunta ^c   Mueller, M Gail ^a,d   Skapura, Diana P ^d   Karrer, Charlotte R ^a   Pinto, Maria R ^c   De Santis, Rosaria ^c   Litman, Gary W ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE BINDING PROTEIN; CHITIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CHITIN SYNTHASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION;

ANTIBODY; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; CHITIN; COLONIZATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FEEDING; IMMUNITY; MATRIX; MUCUS; SECRETION;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BIOFILM; CARBON SOURCE; CHORDATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GLYCOCALYX; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; INTESTINE WALL; MEDIATOR RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; ANIMAL; CIONA INTESTINALIS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE MUCOSA; METABOLISM; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; MUCUS;

CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS;

ANIMALS; BIOFILMS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHITIN; CHITIN SYNTHASE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MUCUS;

EID: 84958214363     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10617     Document Type: Article

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