By Peter Parham
ISBN-10: 0125450257
ISBN-13: 9780125450256
ISBN-10: 1435605152
ISBN-13: 9781435605152
The HLA FactsBook offers up to date and complete details at the HLA genes in a fashion that's obtainable to either newbie and professional alike. the focal point of the booklet is at the polymorphic HLA genes (HLA-A, B, C, DP, DQ, and DR) which are typed for in medical HLA laboratories. every one gene has a devoted part during which person entries describe the constitution, services, and inhabitants distribution of teams of similar allotypes. Fourteen introductory chapters supply a beginner's consultant to the elemental constitution, functionality, and genetics of the HLA genes, in addition to to the nomenclature and strategies used for HLA typing. This e-book could be a useful reference for researchers learning the human immune reaction, for clinicians and laboratory group of workers serious about medical and forensic HLA typing, and for human geneticists, inhabitants biologists, and evolutionary biologists attracted to HLA genes as markers of human range. Key positive factors* Introductory chapters offer strong basic assessment of HLA box for beginner immunologists and geneticists* updated, whole directory of HLA alleles* necessary reference source for immunologists, geneticists, and cellphone biologists* Combines either structural and sensible details, which hasn't ever been compiled in one reference e-book formerly* Serological specificity of allotypes* identification of fabric sequenced together with ethnic foundation* Database accession numbers* inhabitants distribution* Peptide binding specificities* T mobilephone epitopes* Amino acid sequences of allotypes* Key references
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So far, no functional differences between TAP alleles have been defined. Names of the TAP alleles are given in Table 9. Table 9. TAP alleles TAP1*0101 TAP1*0102N TAP1*02011 TAP1*02012 TAP 1*0301 TAP 1*0401 TAP2*0101 TAP2*0102 TAP2*0103 TAP2*0201 The MIC family of five genes (MICA, MICE, MICC, MICD and MICE) includes two expressed genes, MICA and MICE, and three pseudogenes, MICC, MICD and MICE. The MICA and MICE genes are similar in organization to class I genes. However, unlike HLA class I heavy chains, the MIC chains do not associate with p2-microglobulin.
However, for many genes the length of the 5' and 3' regions that are relevant to gene expression have yet to be established. At first, the criterion for assigning names to HLA class I alleles was that the complete sequence of the coding region be determined. Subsequently the criterion was relaxed to include only the sequence of exons 2 and 3 which encode Antigens and Alleles: Workshops and Nomenclature Table 10. Abandoned names for HLA class I alleles Old name now abandoned New name A*0223 A*2401 A*2412 A*3005 A*31011 A*3302 B*0701 B*1305 B*1541 B*27051 B*39012 B*4017 BM203 B*4401 B*5003 B*5506 B*5803 B*7901 Cw*0101 Cw*0201 Cw*0301 Cw*0601 Cw*1101 Cw^ 1201 Cw^ 1401 Cw^ 1501 Cw^ 1603 Cw^ 16042 Cw^ 1605 A*0222 A*2408 A*3004 A*31012 A*3303 Bn304 B*1539 B*27052 B*39011 BM016 B*4202 BM402 B*5002 B*5504 Bn518 Cw*0102 Cw* 02022 Cw*0304 Cw*0602 Cw* 12022 Cw*1402 Cw*1502 Cw*1403 Cw* 16041 Cw* 16041 the most polymorphic part of the molecule.
P indicates the peptide antigen bound by the HLA molecule. T-cell receptors interact with a surface of the class I molecule formed by the a^ domain, the a2 domain and the bound peptide. Similarly, T-cell receptors interact with a surface of the class II molecule formed by the a^ domain, the P, domain and the bound peptide. by a particular class of HLA molecule are said to be restricted to that class. An individual T cell is restricted by a single class I or II allotype, the one on which it was positively selected in the thymus.
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