Analysis of the HLA-DRw8 haplotype: recognition by HTC typing of three distinct antigen complexes in Caucasians, Native Americans, and Orientals.

abstract：:The genetic control of natural resistance in vivo to four natural killer (NK) cell-resistant H-2 homozygous lymphoid tumor cell lines was investigated by following the survival and organ distribution of cells prelabeled with radioactive iododeoxyuridine. Backcross mice derived from DBA/2J and CBA/J parents were inject...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Carlson GA,Taylor BA,Marshall ST,Greenberg AH

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cathepsins are key mammalian proteases that play an important role in the immune response. Several studies have revealed the versatile and critical functions of cathepsins. Here, we obtained ten kinds of cathepsin homologs and identified seven homologs with complete coding sequences. Phylogenetic analysis verified the...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Wang D,Su P,Wang X,Liu K,Li C,Gao X,Lu J,Sun F,Li Q,Pang Y

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interleukin-1 gene family encodes a group of related proteins that exhibit a remarkable pleiotropy in the context of health and disease. The set of indispensable functions they control suggests that these genes should be found in all eukaryotic species. The ligands and receptors of this family have been primarily ...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Gibson MS,Kaiser P,Fife M

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the DRB1*03 gene has been interpreted as the product of a gene conversion event involving a DRB3 gene as donor and resulting in the introduction of two short segments of the DRB3 sequence into the DRB1 locus. The serological counterpart of this double insertion is the TR81 specificity. Consequently, t...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Sorrentino R,Iannicola C,Botti S,Costanzi S,Tanigaki N,Tosi R

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural resistance-associated macrophage protein 1 (NRAMP1) has an important role in regulating macrophage functions that affect innate resistance as well as immune responses. We analyzed the microsatellite polymorphism in the promoter region of the human NRAMP1 gene in 206 type 1 diabetes patients and 200 normal chil...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Bassuny WM,Ihara K,Matsuura N,Ahmed S,Kohno H,Kuromaru R,Miyako K,Hara T

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of H-2- and T-region products in determining allogeneic cell rejection was evaluated in H-2 congenic and recombinant mice by transplanting A1ATH and A6ATL leukemia cell lines induced in A.TH and A.TL strains, respectively, by Moloney murine leukemia virus.--In K- or D-region incompatible hosts transplant fail...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Biasi G,Collavo D,Zanovello P,Chieco-Bianchi L

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed genomic DNA in a large number of independent examples of five HLA-DQw2-bearing extended haplotypes for their associated subtypes by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) using DRB, DQA, and DQB probes after Taq I and Pst I digestion and Southern blotting. In addition to three previously desc...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Yunis JJ,Wescott M,Lechin SJ,Alosco SM,Awdeh Z,Alper CA,Yunis EJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cell receptor genes are assembled in developing T lymphocytes from discrete V, D, and J genes by a site-specific somatic rearrangement mechanism. A flanking recombination signal, composed of a conserved heptamer and a semiconserved nonamer separated by 12 or 23 variable nucleotides, targets the activity of the rearr...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Touvrey C,Cowell LG,Lieberman AE,Marche PN,Jouvin-Marche E,Candéias SM

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse Fcgr1 gene encoding the high-affinity IgG receptor (FcgammaRI) exists as two known alleles, FcgammaRI-BALB and FcgammaRI-NOD, and these alleles exhibit functional differences. To determine whether other alleles exist in mouse strains, Fcgr1 coding regions from 35 strains of mice were sequenced and a further ...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Gavin AL,Leiter EH,Hogarth PM

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rh-related transcripts present in bone marrow samples from several species of nonhuman primates (chimpanzee, gorilla, gibbon, crab-eating macaque) have been amplified by RT-polymerase chain reaction using primers deduced from the sequence of human RH genes. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the nonhuman transcripts reve...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Salvignol I,Calvas P,Socha WW,Colin Y,Le Van Kim C,Bailly P,Ruffié J,Cartron JP,Blancher A

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic factors that determine the size of lymphocyte populations are largely unknown. We studied the genetic control of variations in the size of the CD4 thymic compartment in unmanipulated mouse strains. A time-course experiment showed that the C57BL/6 mouse strain has a consistently reduced proportion of thymic...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Duarte N,Penha-Gonçalves C

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms to account for the unusual properties of a DR1 alpha beta complex (designated DRgp50) that is resistant to dissociation under normal conditions utilized were investigated. Expression of this DRgp50 complex is highly correlated with the failure of cells from certain DR1 individuals (DR1x) to stimulate specif...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Davis JE,Cook RG,Van M,Rich RR

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunofluorescent and immunoelectron-microscopic staining methods were utilized to investigate the localization of Ia antigens in murine keratinizing epithelia. Approximately 3-5% of epidermal cells were shown to be Ia positive. Only dendritic Langerhans cells in the interfollicular epidermis and outer root sheaths we...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Rowden G,Phillips TM,Delovitch TL

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Position 45 represents a highly polymorphic residue within HLA class I alleles, which contacts the p2 position of bound peptides in 85% of the peptide-HLA structures analyzed, while the neighboring residues 41 and 46 are not involved in peptide binding. To investigate the influence of residue 45 at the functional leve...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Badrinath S,Huyton T,Schumacher H,Blasczyk R,Bade-Doeding C

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice bearing the H-2w7 haplotype have five C4-related genes, one C4, one Slp, and three C4/Slp hybrid genes. The expression of these five genes in the liver of H-2w7 mice was estimated at the steady state level of their respective mRNA. We have amplified by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) three regions of the C4/S...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Huang ZM,Takahashi M,Nonaka M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigenic peptide binding to MHC class II molecules in the endocytic pathway occurs via a multifactorial process that requires the support of a specialized lysosomal chaperone called HLA-DM. DM shows both in primary amino acid sequence and quaternary structure a high homology to both MHC class I and class II molecules...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： van Ham M,van Lith M,Griekspoor A,Neefjes J

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MHC class II deficiency provokes a severe immunodeficiency characterized by a lack of antigen-specific immune response. In the absence of bone marrow transplantation (the only curative treatment), patients affected by this genetic recessive disease die in early childhood. However, others and we have recently described...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Prod'homme T,Dekel B,Barbieri G,Lisowska-Grospierre B,Katz R,Charron D,Alcaide-Loridan C,Pollack S

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To describe the polymorphism of the DRA gene in Macaca fascicularis, we have studied 141 animals either at cDNA level (78 animals from Mauritius, the Philippines, and Vietnam) or genomic level (63 animals from the Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam). In total, we characterized 22 cDNA DRA alleles, 13 of which had not...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Aarnink A,Estrade L,Apoil PA,Kita YF,Saitou N,Shiina T,Blancher A

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of HIV-1 viremia and progression to AIDS has been associated with specific HLA genes. The tumor necrosis factor ( TNF) and the non-classical major histocompatibility (MHC) class I chain-related A ( MICA) genes are located in the genomic segment between the HLA class I and II genes and variants of both genes ha...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Delgado JC,Leung JY,Baena A,Clavijo OP,Vittinghoff E,Buchbinder S,Wolinsky S,Addo M,Walker BD,Yunis EJ,Goldfeld AE

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variation in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is directly correlated to differences in disease resistance. Immunity is greatly dependent on highly polymorphic genes in the MHC, such as class I, class II, and class III complement genes. Preliminary studies of wild turkey populations show extreme polym...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Bauer MM,Reed KM

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the expression of H-Y antigen in 14 XO female mice using three monoclonal H-Y-specific antibodies. We found that spleen and liver cells from XO mice removed the reactivity of these antibodies at the same efficacy as XY cells. However radiobinding assays on cultured XO cells suggested a qualitative or quant...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Koo GC,Reidy JA,Nagamine CM

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease affecting 0.5-1% of the population worldwide. The disease has a heterogeneous character, including clinical subsets of anti-citrullinated protein antibody (ACPA)-positive and APCA-negative disease. Although the pathogenesis of RA is poorly understood, progress ...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Bax M,van Heemst J,Huizinga TW,Toes RE

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The variability of immune responses modulated by human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes and secreted cytokines is a significant factor in the development of a protective effect of measles vaccine. We studied the association between type 1 helper T cells (Th1)- and Th2-like cytokine immune responses and HLA class I allele...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Ovsyannikova IG,Ryan JE,Vierkant RA,Pankratz VS,Jacobson RM,Poland GA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many fishes express high levels of intraspecific variability, often linked to resource partitioning. Several studies show that a species' evolutionary trajectory of adaptive divergence can undergo reversals caused by changes in its environment. Such a reversal in neutral genetic and morphological variation among lake ...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Baillie SM,Hemstock RR,Muir AM,Krueger CC,Bentzen P

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TAP1 and TAP2 are two major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes, located between HLA-DP and -DQ, whose products form a transporter molecule involved in endogenous antigen processing. Polymorphic residues have been described in both genes and, in this study, we have identified another polymorphic site within the ade...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Powis SH,Tonks S,Mockridge I,Kelly AP,Bodmer JG,Trowsdale J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ranatuerins are antimicrobial peptides of the innate immune system found in ranid frogs. We previously presented evidence that a positive selective sweep had fixed a single allele at the Ranatuerin2 locus in the northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens). In this paper, we further investigate the evolutionary history of ran...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Tennessen JA,Blouin MS

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sheep immunoglobulin heavy chain Igh-J locus has been characterized in order to determine the genomic organization of JH segments and their contribution to heavy chain diversity. The locus contains six segments, of which two are functional and four are apparently pseudogenes. These segments span a 1.8 kilobase (kb...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Dufour V,Nau F

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two proteasome activators PA28alpha and beta, which have been implicated in antigen processing for loading class I MHC molecules, are synthesized in response to Ifn-gamma. The human genes encoding these activators (PSME1 and PSME2, respectively) were analyzed by sequencing. Each gene comprised 11 exons, consistent wit...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： McCusker D,Wilson M,Trowsdale J

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) includes highly polymorphic gene families encoding proteins crucial to the vertebrate acquired immune system. Classical MHC class I (MHCI) genes code for molecules expressed on the surfaces of most nucleated cells and are associated with defense against intracellular pathogen...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Buehler DM,Verkuil YI,Tavares ES,Baker AJ

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reliable predictions of immunogenic peptides are essential in rational vaccine design and can minimize the experimental effort needed to identify epitopes. In this work, we describe a pan-specific major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I epitope predictor, NetCTLpan. The method integrates predictions of proteaso...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Stranzl T,Larsen MV,Lundegaard C,Nielsen M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00