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Variable Lymphocyte Receptors
From Proteopedia
Variable lymphocyte receptors (VLRs) are leucine-rich repeat (LRR) family proteins that mediate adaptive immune responses in the jawless vertebrates, lampreys and hagfish. [1]
| Variable lymphocyte receptor of lamprey bound to a protein antigen (3g3a), resolution 2.20Å | |||||||||
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| Gene: | vlr (Petromyzon marinus), lysozyme, LYZ (Gallus gallus) | ||||||||
| Activity: | Lysozyme, with EC number 3.2.1.17 | ||||||||
| Related: | 3g39, 3g3b | ||||||||
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| Resources: | FirstGlance, OCA, PDBsum, RCSB | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | save as pdb, mmCIF, xml | ||||||||
Articles in Proteopedia concerning Variable lymphocyte receptors include:
References
- ↑ Kim HM, Oh SC, Lim KJ, Kasamatsu J, Heo JY, Park BS, Lee H, Yoo OJ, Kasahara M, Lee JO. Structural diversity of the hagfish variable lymphocyte receptors. J Biol Chem. 2007 Mar 2;282(9):6726-32. Epub 2006 Dec 27. PMID:17192264 doi:10.1074/jbc.M608471200
See Also
Additional Literature
- Bajoghli B, Guo P, Aghaallaei N, Hirano M, Strohmeier C, McCurley N, Bockman DE, Schorpp M, Cooper MD, Boehm T. A thymus candidate in lampreys. Nature. 2011 Feb 3;470(7332):90-4. PMID:21293377 doi:10.1038/nature09655
- Herrin BR, Cooper MD. Alternative adaptive immunity in jawless vertebrates. J Immunol. 2010 Aug 1;185(3):1367-74. PMID:20660361 doi:10.4049/jimmunol.0903128
- Mariuzza RA, Velikovsky CA, Deng L, Xu G, Pancer Z. Structural insights into the evolution of the adaptive immune system: the variable lymphocyte receptors of jawless vertebrates. Biol Chem. 2010 Jul;391(7):753-60. PMID:20482318 doi:10.1515/BC.2010.091
- Velikovsky CA, Deng L, Tasumi S, Iyer LM, Kerzic MC, Aravind L, Pancer Z, Mariuzza RA. Structure of a lamprey variable lymphocyte receptor in complex with a protein antigen. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2009 Jul;16(7):725-30. Epub 2009 Jun 21. PMID:19543291 doi:10.1038/nsmb.1619
- Herrin BR, Cooper MD. Alternative adaptive immunity in jawless vertebrates. J Immunol. 2010 Aug 1;185(3):1367-74. PMID:20660361 doi:10.4049/jimmunol.0903128
- Herrin BR, Alder MN, Roux KH, Sina C, Ehrhardt GR, Boydston JA, Turnbough CL Jr, Cooper MD. Structure and specificity of lamprey monoclonal antibodies. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Feb 12;105(6):2040-5. Epub 2008 Jan 31. PMID:18238899 doi:10.1073/pnas.0711619105
- Han BW, Herrin BR, Cooper MD, Wilson IA. Antigen recognition by variable lymphocyte receptors. Science. 2008 Sep 26;321(5897):1834-7. PMID:18818359 doi:321/5897/1834
