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MACROKINES: INVERTEBRATE CYTOKINE-LIKE MOLECULES?
Gregory Beck
Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts at Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125-3393 USA
Received 4/3/98 Accepted 6/11/98
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 1. Abstract
- 2. Introduction
- 3. Invertebrate host defense concepts
- 3.1. Interleukin 1
3.2. Interleukin 6
3.3. Our Previous Studies of Invertebrate Cytokine-like Molecules
3.4. Cytokine-like Molecules and Receptors in Other Lower Species
3.5. Molecular Evolution Studies of Vertebrate Cytokines and its Possible Relationship to Invertebrate Studies
3.6. Our most recent molecular data
- 4. Perspective
- 5. Acknowledgements
- 6. References
- 7. Entire manuscript
Key words: Evolution, Immunology, Host Defense, Innate, Coelomocytes, Hemocytes, Interleukin, Invertebrate, Cytokine, IL-1, IL-6
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