Open AccessMHC genes in Invertebrates: The Echinodermata
Author(s) -
Michel Leclerc,
Ariane Jolly,
de la Grange Pierre
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of clinical cases and reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2582-0435
DOI - 10.46619/joccr.2019.2-1049
Subject(s) - gene , major histocompatibility complex , biology , mhc class i , immune system , genetics , computational biology
The MHC is a set of genes that codes for cell surface proteins essential for the acquired immune system to recognize foreign molecules in vertebrates and MHC II gene was described in Echinodermata for the first time. For the present time, MHC Class I gene was not found in a significant manner so for concluding the existence of MHC I gene in Echinodermata, further studies will be necessarily done.