Evolutionary implications of a third lymphocyte lineage in lampreys

Masayuki Hirano, Peng Guo, Nathanael McCurley, Michael Schorpp, Sabyasachi Das, Thomas Boehm and Max D. Cooper ()
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Masayuki Hirano: Emory University, 1462 Clifton Road North-East, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Peng Guo: Emory University, 1462 Clifton Road North-East, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Nathanael McCurley: Emory University, 1462 Clifton Road North-East, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Michael Schorpp: Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Stuebeweg 51, Freiburg D-79108, Germany
Sabyasachi Das: Emory University, 1462 Clifton Road North-East, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Thomas Boehm: Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Stuebeweg 51, Freiburg D-79108, Germany
Max D. Cooper: Emory University, 1462 Clifton Road North-East, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA

Nature, 2013, vol. 501, issue 7467, 435-438

Abstract: Cells expressing variable lymphocyte receptor C (VLRC) genes that encode VLRC receptors, which are used by jawless vertebrates to react with antigens, are defined as a second T-cell-like lymphocyte subset (the first being VLRA-bearing cells); distinct properties of these two T-cell-like subsets are reminiscent of the distinction between αβ and γδ T cells in jawed vertebrates.

Date: 2013
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