This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
References
Auffray, C., Korman, A. J., Roux-Dosseto, M., Bono, R., and Strominger, J. L.: cDNA clone for the heavy chain of the human B cell alloantigen DC1: strong sequence homology to the HLA-DR heavy chain.Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 79: 6337–6341, 1982
Auffray, C., Illie, J. W., Arnot, D., Grossberg, D., Kappes, D., and Strominger, J. L.: Isotypic and allotypic variation of human class II histocompatibility antigen alpha-chain genes.Nature 308: 327–333, 1984
Barran, P. A. and McMaster, W. R.: DNA sequence analysis of the rat RT1.Bα gene.Immunogenetics 26: 56–62, 1987
Benoist, C. O., Mathis, D. J., Kanter, M. R., Williams, V. E., II, and McDevitt, H. O.: Regions of allelic hypervariability in the murine A alpha immune response gene.Cell 34: 169–177, 1983
Chang, H. C., Moriuchi, T., and Silver, J.: The heavy chain of human B cell alloantigen HLA-DS has a variable N terminal region and a constant immunoglobulin like region.Nature 305: 813–815, 1983
Figueroa, F. and Klein, J.: The evolution of MHC class II genes.Immunol Today 7: 78–81, 1986
Klein, J.:Natural of the Major Histocompatibility Complex, Wiley, New York, 1986
Kondaiah, P., Obberghen-Schilling, E. V., Ludwig, R. L., Dhar, R., Sporn, M. B., and Roberts, A. B.: cDNA cloning of porcine transforming growth factor-beta mRNAs. Evidence for alternate splicing and polyadenylation.J Biol Chem 263: 18313–18317, 1988
LeGuern, C., Weissman, J. D., Marche, P. N., Jouvin-Marche, E., Laverriere, A., Bagnato, M. R., and Kindt, T. J.: Sequence determination of a transcribed rabbit class II gene with homology toHLA-DQ α.Immunogenetics 25: 104–109, 1987
Lunney, J. K., Pescovitz, M. D., and Sachs, D. H.: The swine major histocompatibility complex: its structure and function.In M. E. Tumbleson, (ed.):Swine in Biomedical Research, pp. 1820–1836, Plenum Press, New York, 1986
Moriuchi, J., Moriuchi, T., and Silver, J.: Nucleotide sequence of an HLA-DQ alpha chain derived from a DRw9 cell line: genetic and evolutionary implications.Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 82: 3420–3424, 1985
Pescovitz, M. D., Thistlethwaite, J. R., Jr., Auchincloss, H., Jr., Ildstad, S. T., Sharp, T. G., Terrill, R., and Sachs, D. H.: Effects of class II antigen matching on renal allograft survival in miniature swine.J Exp Med 160: 1495–1505, 1984
Sachs, D. H., Germana, S., El-Gamil, M., Gustafsson, K., Hirsch, F., and Pratt, K.: Class II genes of miniature swine. I. Class II gene characterization by RFLP and by isolation from a genomic library.Immunogenetics 28: 22–29, 1988
Schenning, L., Larhammar, D., Bill, P., Wima, K., Jonsson, A. K., Rask, L., and Peterson, P. A.: Both alpha and beta chains of HLA-DC class II histocompatibility antigens display extensive polymorphism in their amino-terminal domains.EMBO J 4: 447–452, 1984
Trowsdale, J., Young, J. A. T., Kelly, A. P., Austin, P. J., Carson, S., Meunier, H., So, A., Erlich, H. A., Spieman, R. S., Bodmer, J., and Bodmer, W. F.: Structure, sequence and polymorphism in the HLA-D region.Immunol Rev 85: 5–43, 1985
Young, J. Z.:The Life of Vertebrates, Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 1981
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Additional information
The nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper have been submitted to the GenBank nucleotide sequence database and have been assigned the accession numbers M29938-9.
Address correspondence and offprint requests to: D. H. Sachs.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Hirsch, F., Sachs, D.H., Gustafson, K. et al. Class II genes of miniature swine. Immunogenetics 31, 52–56 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00702489
Received:
Revised:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00702489