Immune system

(Mix, Goertsches et al. 2006; Wesolowski, Alzogaray et al. 2009; Chaplin 2010; Charroux and Royet 2010; Flajnik and Kasahara 2010; Kasahara 2010; Litman, Rast et al. 2010; Ricklin, Hajishengallis et al. 2010; Boehm 2011)

 

VDJ joining

 

(Feeney, Victor et al. 1994; Ezekiel, Sun et al. 1997; Collins, Sewell et al. 2003; Dudley, Chaudhuri et al. 2005; Thai and Kearney 2005; Yuan, Agard et al. 2005; Kiss, Fisher et al. 2006; Bonnet, Ferrier et al. 2009; Degner-Leisso and Feeney 2010; Featherstone, Wood et al. 2010; Giallourakis, Franklin et al. 2010; Motea and Berdis 2010; Osipovich and Oltz 2010; Zhang, Zmasek et al. 2010; Gapud and Sleckman 2011; Guo, Yoon et al. 2011; Schatz and Ji 2011)

 

Activated B cells and AID (activation induced deaminase)

 

(Muramatsu, Kinoshita et al. 2000; Longerich, Basu et al. 2006; Doi, Kato et al. 2009; Park, Zan et al. 2009; Borchert, Holton et al. 2010; Tanaka, Shen et al. 2010)

 

Somatic hypermutation

 

(Cascalho, Wong et al. 1998; Zan, Cerutti et al. 1999; Muramatsu, Kinoshita et al. 2000; Kinoshita and Honjo 2001; Honjo, Kinoshita et al. 2002; Papavasiliou and Schatz 2002; Diaz, Ray et al. 2003; Dickerson, Market et al. 2003; Li, Woo et al. 2004; Shinkura, Ito et al. 2004; Goodman and Scharff 2005; Odegard, Kim et al. 2005; Seki, Gearhart et al. 2005; Casali, Pal et al. 2006; Inlay, Gao et al. 2006; Longerich, Basu et al. 2006; Odegard and Schatz 2006; Yang, Fugmann et al. 2006; Di Noia and Neuberger 2007; Teng and Papavasiliou 2007; Arakawa, Kudo et al. 2008; Chezar, Lobel-Lavi et al. 2008; Longo, Satorius et al. 2008; Peled, Kuang et al. 2008; Steele 2008; Arakawa and Buerstedde 2009; Blagodatski, Batrak et al. 2009; Dunnick, Collins et al. 2009; Hackney, Misaghi et al. 2009; Liu and Schatz 2009; Park, Zan et al. 2009; Reynaud, Delbos et al. 2009; Sale, Batters et al. 2009; Steele 2009; Maul and Gearhart 2010; Maul and Gearhart 2010; Tanaka, Shen et al. 2010; Wei, Shinkura et al. 2011)

Class (isotype) switching

(Zan, Cerutti et al. 1999; Muramatsu, Kinoshita et al. 2000; Honjo, Kinoshita et al. 2002; Zhang 2003; Li, Woo et al. 2004; Dudley, Chaudhuri et al. 2005; Longerich, Basu et al. 2006; Chaudhuri, Basu et al. 2007; Yan, Boboila et al. 2007; Jolly, Cook et al. 2008; Zan and Casali 2008; Dinkelmann, Spehalski et al. 2009; Doi, Kato et al. 2009; Hackney, Misaghi et al. 2009; Kotnis, Du et al. 2009; Kuang, Luo et al. 2009; Park, Zan et al. 2009; Sellars, Reina-San-Martin et al. 2009; Boboila, Yan et al. 2010; Daniel, Santos et al. 2010; Ise, Kohyama et al. 2011; Okazaki, Okawa et al. 2011)

T-cell receptors

(Bonnet, Ferrier et al. 2009; Krangel 2009; Kasahara 2010; Spicuglia, Pekowska et al. 2010; Zhang, Zmasek et al. 2010; Seitan, Hao et al. 2011)

Regulation, communication and sensing

(Campbell 1999; Gold, Ingham et al. 2000; Wienands 2000; Engelke, Engels et al. 2007; Engels, Engelke et al. 2008; Zipfel 2008; Boller and He 2009; Crozat, Vivier et al. 2009; Feeney 2009; Nehyba, Hrdlickova et al. 2009; Postel and Kemmerling 2009; Ramanathan, Gagnon et al. 2009; Sun and Lanier 2009; Goodnow, Vinuesa et al. 2010; Iwasaki and Medzhitov 2010; Kurosaki, Shinohara et al. 2010; McDonald, Pittman et al. 2010; Mulloy, Cancelas et al. 2010; Ricklin, Hajishengallis et al. 2010; Silva 2010; Tsuda and Katagiri 2010; Wang, Zhang et al. 2010; Zhang and Zhou 2010; Allen and Maizels 2011; Chong and Sriskandan 2011; Cyktor and Turner 2011; Gerlach, Cordier et al. 2011; Hacker, Tseng et al. 2011; Horvath, Schrum et al. 2011; Hwang, Porterfield et al. 2011; Lacy and Stow 2011; Lazzaro and Rolff 2011; Maekawa, Kufer et al. 2011; Mahbub, Haque et al. 2011; Mantovani, Cassatella et al. 2011; Morrison, Ballantyne et al. 2011; Paust and von Andrian 2011; Redford, Murray et al. 2011; Saggini, Maccauro et al. 2011; Segonzac and Zipfel 2011; Sprent and Surh 2011; Willinger, Rongvaux et al. 2011; Zygmunt and Veldhoen 2011)

Distinct vertebrate adaptive immune systems

(Hamers-Casterman, Atarhouch et al. 1993; Greenberg, Avila et al. 1995; Roux, Greenberg et al. 1998; Nguyen, Su et al. 2002; Conrath, Wernery et al. 2003; Criscitiello, Saltis et al. 2006; Dooley and Flajnik 2006; Kanayama, Todo et al. 2006; LaRue, Jonsson et al. 2008; Cooper and Herrin 2010; Dzik 2010; Flajnik and Kasahara 2010; Herrin and Cooper 2010; Litman, Rast et al. 2010; Saha, Smith et al. 2010; Hirano, Das et al. 2011; Star, Nederbragt et al. 2011)

Innate immunity

(Seth, Sun et al. 2006; Qi, Huang et al. 2007; LaRue, Jonsson et al. 2008; Zipfel 2008; Boller and He 2009; Castellheim, Brekke et al. 2009; Crozat, Vivier et al. 2009; Gombart, Saito et al. 2009; Miller, Boulter et al. 2009; Postel and Kemmerling 2009; Scott 2009; Sun and Lanier 2009; Zak and Aderem 2009; Biron 2010; Charroux and Royet 2010; Irazoqui, Urbach et al. 2010; Iwasaki and Medzhitov 2010; Kumar, Molina-Cruz et al. 2010; Ryu, Ha et al. 2010; Wiesner and Vilcinskas 2010; Arnoult, Soares et al. 2011; Barber 2011; Bhattacharjee, Halane et al. 2011; Burdette, Monroe et al. 2011; Cerliani, Stowell et al. 2011; Heidrich, Wirthmueller et al. 2011; Hou, Sun et al. 2011; Ishikawa and Barber 2011; Koshiba, Bashiruddin et al. 2011; Kumar, Kawai et al. 2011; Lacy and Stow 2011; Liu and Gu 2011; Maekawa, Kufer et al. 2011; Mantovani, Cassatella et al. 2011; Matsumiya, Imaizumi et al. 2011; Munk, Sommer et al. 2011; Segonzac and Zipfel 2011; Venier, Varotto et al. 2011; West, Shadel et al. 2011; Habets and Brockhurst 2012)

SAB Biosystems, “Toll-Like Receptors and Innate Immunity,” http://www.sabiosciences.com/pathwaymagazine/pathways7/toll-like-receptors-and-innate-immunity.php?utm_content=RO111107+Inflammatory+Response+Review_us&utm_campaign=RO111107+Inflammatory+Response&utm_source=iPost&utm_medium=email

            Pathogen sensing: (Leng and Bentwich 2002; Zipfel 2008; Boller and He 2009; Postel and Kemmerling 2009; Sato, St-Pierre et al. 2009; Brennan and Bowie 2010; Tsuda and Katagiri 2010; Wilkins and Gale 2010; Zhang and Zhou 2010; Liu and Gu 2011; Loo and Gale 2011; Maekawa, Kufer et al. 2011; Matsumiya, Imaizumi et al. 2011; Onoguchi, Yoneyama et al. 2011; Rathinam and Fitzgerald 2011; Sander, Davis et al. 2011; Schenten and Medzhitov 2011; Segonzac and Zipfel 2011; Pan, Zhou et al. 2012)

 

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