The RAG key to vertebrate adaptive immunity descended directly from a bacterial ancestor

Natl Sci Rev. 2022 Apr 18;9(8):nwac073. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwac073. eCollection 2022 Aug.

Xin Tao^{1

2}, Ziwen Huang¹, Fan Chen¹, Xinli Wang¹, Tingting Zheng³, Shaochun Yuan^{1

4}, Anlong Xu^{1

5}

¹ State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Functional Genes, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, China.
² Center for Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, China.
³ Shanghai Institute of Immunology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China.
⁴ Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, China.
⁵ School of Life Sciences, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, China.

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