The Complement System in Echinodermata

ISBN-13: 9786139476565 / Angielski

Michel Leclerc

Opis

How great is the Echinodermata adaptative and innate immune system ! We find in it, immune genes like the IGKAPPA GENE with Ig sites( for the adaptative immunity) Complement genes, from C1 to C9 for the innate immune system.... As for complement genes: Cr Receptor gene was found so all the alternate and classical genes, we describe in vertebrates. Furthermore, and for the first time MBL2 MASP1 genes which belongs to the Lectin pathway are shown in an invertebrate SO 3 complement pathways exist in Echinodermata: Alternate one, classical one, lectin one.

O autorze

Leclerc, Michel
Dr. Michel Leclerc was born the 31 th January 1941, at St Benoit sur Loire (Loiret, France).He possessed a DES in Biology, A doctorat ès Sciences in Immunology, and was director of the laboratory of "Immunology of Invertebrates" at Orléans University France.