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Like an Invertebrate Primitive Antibody

Michel Leclerc1
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Abstract

Specific immune responses occur in an invertebrate: The sea star Asterias rubens. Sea star T and B lymphocytes are present in the axial organ and coopere with phagocytes and Complement components to produce a primitive antibody correlated to Igkappa genes and to complement genes: It could be composed of 4 kappa chains and present strong and highly significant homologies to Mouse IgKappa region V-IV S107B precursor gene.

American Journal of Immunology
Volume 9 No. 3, 2013, 94-95

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajisp.2013.94.95

Submitted On: 18 July 2013 Published On: 20 August 2013

How to Cite: Leclerc, M. (2013). Like an Invertebrate Primitive Antibody. American Journal of Immunology, 9(3), 94-95. https://doi.org/10.3844/ajisp.2013.94.95

Open AccessCopyright: © 2013 Michel Leclerc. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Keywords

  • Invertebrate
  • Asterias
  • Phagocytes
  • IgKappa