A method for making alignments of related protein sequences that share very little similarity; shark interleukin 2 as an example.

abstract：:A healthy adult having no serologically detectable HLA class I A locus antigens was identified. The parents of the individual are consanguineous. Results of a family study indicated that the individual is homozygous for the B46-Cw1-DR8.1 haplotype, which was shown to be positively associated with A*0207 in our previou...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Ishikawa Y,Tokunaga K,Tanaka H,Nishimura M,Muraoka M,Fujii Y,Akaza T,Tadokoro K,Juji T

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways, and a number of genetic loci are associated with the disease. Candidate gene association studies have been regarded as effective tools to study complex traits. Knowledge of the sequence variation and structure of the candidate genes is required for association ...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Kim JJ,Kim HH,Park JH,Ryu HJ,Kim J,Moon S,Gu H,Kim HT,Lee JY,Han BG,Park C,Kimm K,Park CS,Lee JK,Oh B

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila larvae react against eggs from the endoparasitoid wasp Leptopilina boulardi by surrounding them in a multilayered cellular capsule. Once a wasp egg is recognized as foreign, circulating macrophage-like cells, known as plasmatocytes, adhere to the invader. After spreading around the wasp egg, plasmatocytes f...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Howell L,Sampson CJ,Xavier MJ,Bolukbasi E,Heck MM,Williams MJ

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the absence of suitable rodent animal models for Plasmodium falciparum malaria, the efficacy testing of asexual blood-stage vaccine candidates in Aotus nancymaae represents a tool to select between different formulations before conducting expensive human clinical trials. CpG oligonucleotides (ODN) specifically prom...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Spirig R,Peduzzi E,Patarroyo ME,Pluschke G,Daubenberger CA

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane immunoglobulin M (mIgM) of a B lymphocyte serves as a receptor for its cognate antigen. Our aim is to elucidate the structure and function of this membrane-bound receptor. The first step is to determine the requirements for proper membrane placement of IgM. We have used mIgM-positive B lymphocyte tumors f...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Sibley CH,Andrews-Wagner R

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macaques are the most widely used experimental nonhuman primate (NHP) species. Rhesus (Macaca mulatta, Macmul), cynomolgus (Macaca fascicularis, Macfas), and pigtail (Macaca nemestrina, Macnem) macaques continue to be popular models for vaccine and infectious diseases research, especially HIV infection and AIDS, and f...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Nguyen DC,Sanghvi R,Scinicariello F,Pulit-Penaloza J,Hill N,Attanasio R

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymorphism of major histocompatibility complex class I chain-related gene B (MICB) and variations in MICB alleles in a variety of populations have been characterized using several genotyping approaches. In the present study, a novel polymerase chain reaction sequence-based typing (PCR-SBT) method was established...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Ying Y,He Y,Tao S,Han Z,Wang W,Chen N,He J,Zhang W,He J,Zhu F,Lv H

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A segment comprising 307,078 nucleotides of the pig major histocompatibility complex (SLA) was completely sequenced. The segment corresponded to the entire SLA classical class I-containing region of the serologically defined SLA H01 haplotype. In all, 11 genes were characterized, comprising 7 class I genes located on ...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Renard C,Vaiman M,Chiannilkulchai N,Cattolico L,Robert C,Chardon P

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been several attempts over the years to identify positions in the peptide-binding region (PBR) of human leukocyte antigens (HLA) that influence the specificity of bound amino acids (AAs) at each position in the peptide. Originally, six pockets (A-F) were defined by calculating the surface area of the PBR on...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Bade-Doeding C,DeLuca DS,Seltsam A,Blasczyk R,Eiz-Vesper B

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetics and family transmission of antigen-specific in vitro cell-mediated responses were investigated in 68, and serum-antibody responses to tetanus toxoid (TT) in 73 individuals from a total of 12 families. Proliferative responses to highly purified TT monomer were studied in 6- to 7-day lymphocyte cultures. The ef...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Ballet JJ,Rabian-Herzog C,Lathrop M,Bourge JF,Agrapart M,Drouet J,Lalouel JM,Dausset J

更新日期：1983-01-01 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

abstract：:We have evaluated the ability of certain inbred strains of mice to develop a delayed-type hypersensitivity response to the male H-Y antigen. It was found that C57BL/10, B10.GD and B10.A(5R) female mice responded to syngeneic male cells. B10.A(4R) females also responded to B10.A(4R) male cells although the reactivity w...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Greene MI,Benacerraf B,Dorf ME

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A DBA/1 B10.D2-specific monoclonal antibody (CY34) is described which defines a new murine B lymphocyte differentiation antigen designated Lyb-8.2. The ontogeny, strain distribution, and cell-surface density of the antigen were studied by radioimmunoassay and by fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS) analysis. Lyb-...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Symington FW,Subbarao B,Mosier DE,Sprent J

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：:The anti-HLA-DQ3 monoclonal antibodies (mAb) KS13, SO1, SO2, SO3, SO4, and SO5 recognize spatially close but distinct antigenic determinants, since they crossinhibit each other in their binding to HLA-DQ3 antigens, but do not share idiotopes recognized in their antigen combining site by syngeneic and anti-id antisera ...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Iwasaki Y,Takabatake H,Monestier M,Ferrone S

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies reacting with TL-like class I antigens expressed on the surface of human thymocytes and some T leukemia lines were found to define three independent epitopic clusters, two of which could be shown to reside on serologically distinct molecular subsets by a solid-phase radioimmunoassay as well as by...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Olive D,Dubreuil P,Mawas C

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cichlid fishes of the East African Rift Valley lakes constitute an important model of adaptive radiation. Explosive speciation in the Great Lakes, in some cases as recently as 12 400 years ago, generated large species flocks that have been the focus of evolutionary studies for some time. The studies have, however, bee...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Sato A,Klein D,Sültmann H,Figueroa F,O'hUigin C,Klein J

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genealogy of 14 H-2Kb mutations arising spontaneously in the C57BL/6Kh colony is presented together with data from skin-graft monitoring and husbandry procedures. Eight of the 14 mutations have phenotypic and structural similarities, but the pedigree analysis and evaluation of the histocompatibility genetics of th...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Melvold RW,Kohn HI,Dunn GR

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge about the magnitude of individual polymorphism is a critical part in understanding the complexity of comprehensive mismatching. HLA-B*44:09 differs from the highly frequent HLA-B*44:02 allele by amino acid exchanges at residues 77, 80, 81, 82 and 83. We aimed to identify the magnitude of these mismatches on ...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

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

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of arthritis and the antibody response to mouse and to rat type II collagen after immunization with native rat type II collagen was studied in different mouse strains, including wild mouse-derived strains belonging to the H-2p/H-2q family. High serum levels of antibodies to mouse and rat type II collagen...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Holmdahl R,Klareskog L,Andersson M,Hansen C

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis has been suggested as a major mechanism for the CD4(+) T-lymphocyte depletion observed in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1). To evaluate the impact of genetic variations to apoptosis during progression of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), we have performed an extensive ge...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Vasilescu A,Heath SC,Diop G,Do H,Hirtzig T,Hendel H,Bertin-Maghit S,Rappaport J,Therwath A,Lathrop GM,Matsuda F,Zagury JF

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Class I major histocompatibility complex (Mhc) cDNA clones were isolated from axolotl mRNA by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and by screening a cDNA phage library. The nucleotide and predicted amino acid sequences show definite similarities to the Mhc class Ialpha molecules of higher vertebrates. Most of the amino ac...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Sammut B,Laurens V,Tournefier A

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human T-cell receptor gamma (TCRG) locus comprises 14 variable genes (TRGV), five joining segments (TRGJ), and two constant region genes (TRGC). The constant gamma 1 gene, TRGC1, consists of three exons, whereas the TRGC2 gene contains four or five exons due to the duplication or triplication of exon 2 and spans 9...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Buresi C,Ghanem N,Huck S,Lefranc G,Lefranc MP

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we present data demonstrating the endogenous expression of I-region associated (Ia) antigens on a cloned line of mouse T cells, CTLL, as well as transcription of the invariant chain gene in these cells. We demonstrate further that this Ia-bearing T-cell clone, CTLL, can utilize the expressed Ia molecule...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Ben-Nun A,Strauss W,Leeman SA,Cohn LE,Murre C,Duby A,Seidman JG,Glimcher LH

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HLA-B and C are related class I genes which are believed to have arisen by duplication of a common ancestor. Previous study showed the presence of orthologues for both HLA-B and C in African apes but only for HLA-B in Asian apes. These observations suggested that the primate C locus evolved subsequent to the divergenc...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Adams EJ,Thomson G,Parham P

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serological reactivities of HLA-A3, -B7, and -CW3 heavy chains associated with either mouse, bovine, or human beta-2-microglobulin (beta 2m) and expressed on the surface of transfected mouse fibroblasts were analyzed. All reactivities associated with one cluster (defined by monoclonal antibody W6/32) of antigenic ...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Ferrier P,Fontecilla-Camps JC,Bucchini D,Caillol DH,Jordan BR,Lemonnier FA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The J chain is a component of polymeric immunoglobulin (Ig) molecules and may play an important role in their polymerization and the transport of polymeric Ig across epithelial cells. In this study, the primary structure of the chicken J chain was determined by sequencing cDNA clones. The cDNA had an open reading fram...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Takahashi T,Iwase T,Tachibana T,Komiyama K,Kobayashi K,Chen CL,Mestecky J,Moro I

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) of the domestic cat has been poorly characterized to date, primarily because of numerous difficulties in the preparation of allotypic sera. We present here a comparative analysis of class I and class II genes in domestic cat populations using molecular probes of the MHC from ...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Yuhki N,O'Brien SJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) is a common problem during early gestation. The aim of our study was to investigate the association of IL-17 F( rs763780), IL-17 A (rs2275913), and leptin (2548 G/A) gene polymorphisms with RPL in obese and lean Egyptian females, and to find out whether these gene polymorphisms affect th...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Zidan HE,Rezk NA,Alnemr AA,Moniem MI

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The common fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is a powerful model for studying signaling pathway regulation. Conserved signaling pathways underlying physiological processes signify evolutionary relationship between organisms and the nature of the mechanisms they control. This study explores the cross-talk between the w...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Patrnogic J,Heryanto C,Ozakman Y,Eleftherianos I

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00