Variable lymphocyte receptors

Pancer, Z., et al., Somatic diversification of variable lymphocyte receptors in the agnathan sea lamprey, Nature, 430, 174, 2004. 

Lamprey lymphocytes. Leucine-rich repeat cassettes and variable lymphocyte receptors provide adaptive immune reactions without immunoglobulins. Release chemokines and interleukins and their receptors express TCR (Mayer WE Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2002 99 14350-14355 Pancer Z et al Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2004 101 13273-13278 Uinuk-Ool T et al Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2002 99 14356-14361 ... 

MARiuzzA RA, VELiKovsKY CA, DENG L, XU G, PANCER z (2010), Structural insights into the evolution of the adaptive immune system the variable lymphocyte receptors of jawless vertebrates , Biol Chem, 391,753-60. 

SOD ha T cell Tc TcR TGA Th TLC TMP/SMX TNF Ts TX U V domain VLA Ml H m superoxide dismutase half-life thymus-derived lymphocyte cytotoxic T cell T-cell receptor thymine-guanine-adenine T helper cell thin layer chromatography trimethoprim/sulphamethazole tumour necrosis factor T suppressor cell thromboxane unit variable domain very-late antigen microlitre (10 6 litre) micrometre (10"6 metre)... 

Komori, T., Okada, A., Stewart, V., Alt, F.W. (1993). Lack of N regions in antigen receptor variable region genes of TdT-deficient lymphocytes. Science 261, 1171-1175. 

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