Diversidad y función de los receptores inmunes adaptativos en un vertebrado sin mandíbula

Matthew N Alder1, Igor B Rogozin, Lakshminarayan M Iyer

  • 1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|December 24, 2005
PubMed
Resumen

Los peces sin mandíbula utilizan receptores de linfocitos variables (VLR) para el reconocimiento de antígenos, ensamblados a partir de módulos de repetición ricos en leucina (LRR). Esto contrasta con los vertebrados con mandíbula, revelando distintas vías evolutivas para la diversidad de receptores inmunes.

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