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Evolution of Ciona intestinalis Tumor necrosis factor alpha (CiTNFα): Polymorphism, tissues expression, and 3D modeling.
Developmental and comparative immunology - 1 Feb 2017
Vizzini Aiti, Parisi Maria Giovanna, Cardinale Laura, Testasecca Lelia, Cammarata Matteo
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Although the Tumor necrosis factor gene superfamily seems to be very conserved in vertebrates, phylogeny, tissue expression, genomic and gene organization, protein domains and polymorphism analyses showed that a strong change has happened mostly in invertebrates in which protochordates were a constraint during the immune-molecules history and evolution. RT PCR was used to investigate differential gene expression...
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