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SUBMITTER: Hernandez Prada JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3707131 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature immunology 20060625 8
Although the origins of genes encoding the rearranging binding receptors remain obscure, it is predicted that their ancestral forms were nonrearranging immunoglobulin-type domains. Variable region-containing chitin-binding proteins (VCBPs) are diversified immune-type molecules found in amphioxus (Branchiostoma floridae), an invertebrate that diverged early in deuterostome phylogeny. To study the potential evolutionary relationships between VCBPs and vertebrate adaptive immune receptors, we solve ...[more]