TY  - JOUR
AU  - Leclerc, Michel 
PY  - 2013
TI  - Like an Invertebrate Primitive Antibody
JF  - American Journal of Immunology
VL  - 9
IS  - 3
DO  - 10.3844/ajisp.2013.94.95
UR  - https://thescipub.com/abstract/ajisp.2013.94.95
AB  - Specific immune responses occur in an invertebrate: The sea star Asterias rubens. Sea star T and B lymphocytes are present in the axial organ and coopere with phagocytes and Complement components to produce a primitive antibody correlated to Igkappa genes and to complement genes: It could be composed of 4 kappa chains and present strong and highly significant  homologies  to Mouse IgKappa region V-IV S107B precursor gene.