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Extensive expansion and diversification of the chemokine gene family in zebrafish: Identification of a novel chemokine subfamily CX
1 Jan 2008
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BACKGROUND: The chemokine family plays important roles in cell migration and activation. In humans, at least 44 members are known. Based on the arrangement of the four conserved cysteine residues, chemokines are now classified into four subfamilies, CXC, CC, XC and CX3C. Given that zebrafish is an important experimental model and teleost fishes constitute an evolutionarily diverse group that forms half the...
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