Pathogen-Host Interactions: Antigenic Variation v. Somatic Adaptations

This volume provides in-depth reviews of model systems that exemplify the arms race in host-pathogen interactions. Somatic adaptations are responsible for the individualization of biological responses to the environment, and the continual struggle between host immune systems and invading pathogens h...

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Hsu, Ellen (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Du Pasquier, Louis (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Έκδοση:1st ed. 2015.
Σειρά:Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation, 57
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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505 0 |a Evolution of immunity and pathogens -- A host-pathogen interaction reduced to first principles: Antigenic variation in T. brucei -- Antigenic variation in Plasmodium falciparum -- Polymorphic mucin-like proteins in Schistosoma mansoni, a variable antigen and a key component of the compatibility between the schistosome and its snail host -- Fibrinogen-related proteins (FREP) in mollusks -- Somatic and germline diversification of a putative immunoreceptor within one phylum: Dscam in arthropods -- An immune effector system in the Protochordate gut sheds light on fundamental aspects of vertebrate immunity -- Variable lymphocyte receptors: a current view -- Antibody repertoire in fish -- Unique features of fish immune repertoires: particularities of the adaptive immunity within the largest group of vertebrates -- The evolution and structure of atypical T cell receptors -- Diversification of the primary antibody repertoire by AID-mediated gene conversion -- Antibody isotype switching in vertebrates. 
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