Polymorphism, natural selection, and structural modeling of class Ia MHC in the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis).

abstract：:T-bet is a key regulator for the lineage commitment in CD4+ T helper (Th) 1 cells by activating the hallmark production of interferon-γ. Previously, two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the TBX21 promoter, T-1993C and T-1514C, have been shown by statistic studies to associate with systemic lupus erythematosus...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Li J,Li J,You Y,Chen S

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Class II genes of the human major histocompatibility complex (MHC) are polymorphic. Allelic variation of the coding region of these genes is involved in the antigen presentation and is associated with susceptibility to certain autoimmune diseases. The DR region is unique among human class II regions in that multiple D...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Louis P,Eliaou JF,Kerlan-Candon S,Pinet V,Vincent R,Clot J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mouse monoclonal antibody, Mo. Ab. 108.45, detecting cell-surface determinants associated with the T-cell receptor for alloantigen was produced by immunizing mice with an alloreactive human T-cell clone and fusing the splenocytes with the NS1 plasmocytoma. This Mo. Ab. reacts with the immunizing T-cell clone but not...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Haars R,Rohowsky-Kochan C,Reed E,King DW,Suciu-Foca N

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of local ultraviolet B (UVB) irradiation to impair the induction of dinitrofluorobenzene (DNFB)-specific contact hypersensitivity (CH) in mice has been shown to be genetically determined. We have explored the possibility that the mouse Tnfa and Lps loci are involved. We demonstrate that C3H/HeN (Lpsn) stra...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Yoshikawa T,Streilein JW

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently mapped the human FCGR2 gene to chromosome 1 bands q23-q24. In situ hybridization of FCGR2 cDNA with a cell line containing a t(1:19)(q23;p13) derived from a patient with pre-B ALL has allowed a more accurate localization of this gene to chromosome 1 band q23. Furthermore, this study indicated a splitt...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Webber LM,Garson OM,Tate B,McKenzie IF,Hogarth PM

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The locus for human immunoglobulin heavy chain constant region genes (IgCH) is characterized by a significant frequency of deleted or duplicated haplotypes, due to unequal crossing-over events. Four types of deletions and one duplication have been reported so far. We describe here a molecular study of four cases of Ig...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Bottaro A,De Marchi M,De Lange G,Boccazzi C,Caldesi F,Gallina R,Carbonara AO

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:Resistance to two cultured lines of murine embryonal carcinoma was studied in F1 hybrids constructed between the tumor-syngeneic mouse strain 129/J and several allogeneic strains. Three of four such hybrid strains were significantly more resistant to the multipotent embryonal carcinoma line PCC3 than the tumor-syngene...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Bishop GA,Dove WF

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ia antigens coded by genes of the murine major histocompatibility complex are expressed on the surface of a population of cells critical to the proliferative response of murine spleen cells to the oxidative mitogen neuraminidase/galactose oxidase. By selective depletion with antiserum and complement, Ia antigens coded...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Phillips ML,Hill SW,Parker JW,O'Brien RL,Frelinger JA

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild mice captured in Texas, Scotland, Federal Republic of Germany, Denmark, Spain, Greece, Israel, Egypt, and Chile were mated to inbred strains and through successive backcross matings and H-2 typing lines homozygous for wild-derived H-2, haplotypes were established. The lines, which are neither congenic nor inbred,...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Zaleska-Rutczynska Z,Figueroa F,Klein J

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) in the mouse (H-2 complex) have been shown to be an important factor in determining the immune responsiveness of various strains of mice to isolated antigens (e.g., lysozyme). The role of MHC genes in controlling the responsiveness of mice to multiple alloantigens is...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Peugh WN,Superina RA,Wood KJ,Morris PJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To analyze how many D-region-encoded molecules could be detected in H-2q, we produced a panel of nine monoclonal antibodies from AKR (KkDk) anti-AKR.M (KkDq) immunizations. All of the Dq region antibodies cross-reacted on Dd and/or Ld, and all except one cross-reacted on Db, confirming the previously observed serologi...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Chatterjee-Das S,Lillehoj EP,Hernandez DM,Coligan JE,Sachs DH

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between 9-mer peptides and HLA-B51 molecules was investigated by quantitative peptide binding assay using RMA-S cells expressing human beta2-microglobulin and HLA-B51 molecules. Of 147 chemically synthesized 9-mer peptides possessing two anchor residues corresponding to the motif of HLA-B*5101 binding ...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Kikuchi A,Sakaguchi T,Miwa K,Takamiya Y,Rammensee HG,Kaneko Y,Takiguchi M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of diseases occur in association with specific HLA-B or -C alleles. Recently a new gene, termed major histocompatibility complex class I chain-related gene A (MICA), has been identified in close proximity to HLA-B. The function of this gene is still unknown, but, it is structurally related to HLA class ...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Mendoza-Rincon J,Argüello JR,Pérez-Rodríguez M,McWhinnie A,Marsh SG,Fischer G,Madrigal JA

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TL antigens are class I glycoproteins which are expressed on thymocytes and which are coded by the Tla region of the major histocompatibility complex of the mouse. Biochemical analysis of TL molecules from different strains of mice revealed structural variation determined by the Tla region which is detectable by pepti...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Michaelson J,Boyse EA,Ciccia L,Flaherty L,Fleissner E,Garnick E,Hämmerling U,Lawrence M,Mauch P,Shen FW

更新日期：1986-01-01 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 peptide repertoire presented on human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I molecules is largely determined by the structure of the peptide binding groove. It is expected that the molecules having similar grooves (i.e., belonging to the same supertype) might present similar/overlapping peptides. However, the extent of p...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Rao X,Hoof I,Costa AI,van Baarle D,Keşmir C

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite matching donors and recipients for the human leukocyte antigens (HLAs) expressed by the major histocompatibility genomic region of the short arm of chromosome 6, several recipients still develop acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD) after bone marrow transplantation (BMT). This is possibly due to non-HLA gen...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Kikuchi T,Naruse TK,Onizuka M,Li S,Kimura T,Oka A,Morishima Y,Kulski JK,Ichimiya S,Sato N,Inoko H

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-specific CD4+ T cells play a critical role in protective immunity to many infectious pathogens. Although the antigen-specific CD4+ T cells can be measured by functional assays such as proliferation or cytokine enzyme-linked immunospot, such assays are limited to a specific function and cannot quantify anergic ...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Norimine J,Han S,Brown WC

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 280 kilobase (kb) contig was isolated from mouse genomic P1 and cosmid libraries, using as probes human cDNA and genomic DNA fragments that map in the interval between the second component of complement and tumor necrosis factor genes of the HLA complex. The clone contig demonstrates synteny of eleven mouse genes th...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Gasser DL,Sternberg NL,Pierce JC,Goldner-Sauve A,Feng H,Haq AK,Spies T,Hunt C,Buetow KH,Chaplin DD

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type II natural killer T cells (NKT) are a subset of the innate-like CD1d-restricted lymphocytes that are reactive to lipid antigens. Unlike the type I NKT cells, which express a semi-invariant TCR, type II NKT cells express a broader TCR repertoire. Additionally, other features, such as their predominance over type I...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Dasgupta S,Kumar V

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetically anemic W/Wv mice and lethally irradiated wild-type mice were cured and populated by grafted marrow cells from donor mice of three congenic lines that differed at non-H-2 histocompatibility loci. Tail skin from mice of the same congenic lines was grafted 3-4 weeks later. In two cases, the recipients behaved...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Harrison DE,Mobraaten LE

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 major histocompatibility complex of the rat (RT1) encodes the class II molecules involved with antigen presentation and cell to cell communication. The organization of these class II genes has been studied by Southern blot hybridization using genomic DNA from inbred and recombinant rat strains digested with variou...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Watters JW,Locker JD,Kunz HW,Gill TJ 3rd

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymorphic major histocompatibility complex (MHC) has gained a specific relevance in pathogen resistance and mate choice. Particularly the antigen-binding site (ABS), encoded by exon 2 of the DRB class II gene, exhibits numerous alleles and extensive sequence variations between alleles. A lack of MHC variability ...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Becker L,Nieberg C,Jahreis K,Peters E

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endemic pemphigus foliaceus (EPF), is an autoimmune disease associated with production of IgG antibodies against epidermal antigens. We have tested 38 patients and 50 control subjects living in endemic areas to investigate whether HLA genes are associated with host factors that determine whether or not exposed individ...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Moraes JR,Moraes ME,Fernandez-Vina M,Diaz LA,Friedman H,Campbell IT,Alvarez RR,Sampaio SA,Rivitti EA,Stastny P

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human IgG receptors (FcgammaR) display considerable heterogeneity, and are crucial immune response modulating molecules. FcgammaRIIA, FcgammaRIIIA, and FcgammaRIIIB display functional biallelic polymorphisms. FcgammaR polymorphisms have been found associated with susceptibility to infectious and autoimmune diseases. L...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： van der Pol WL,Jansen MD,Sluiter WJ,van de Sluis B,Leppers-van de Straat FG,Kobayashi T,Westendorp RG,Huizinga TW,van de Winkel JG

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we investigate patterns of variation in the KIR cluster in a large and well-characterized sample of worldwide human populations in the Human Genome Diversity Project-Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain (HGDP-CEPH) panel in order to better understand the patterns of diversity in the region. Com...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Hollenbach JA,Nocedal I,Ladner MB,Single RM,Trachtenberg EA

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：:We have isolated and characterized cDNAs and genes for pufferfish, Fugu rubripes, (Fugu) orthologues of mammalian interleukin (IL)-12 subunits (IL-12 p35 and IL-12 p40). The deduced amino acid sequences of the Fugu IL-12 subunits showed homology with mammalian IL-12 subunits (p35: 50.4-58.0% similarity; p40: 51.2-55.4...

journal_title：Immunogenetics

authors： Yoshiura Y,Kiryu I,Fujiwara A,Suetake H,Suzuki Y,Nakanishi T,Ototake M

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00