Publications

Ohta, Y., McKinney, E.C., Criscitiello, M.F., and Flajnik, M.F. 2002. Proteasome, TAP, and class I genes in the nurse shark Ginglymostoma cirratum: Evidence for a stable class I region and MHC haplotype lineages. J. Immunol. 168:771-781.

Flajnik, M.F. and Kasahara, M. 2001.  Comparative genomics of the MHC: Glimpses into the evolution of the adaptive immune system. Immunity 15:351-362.

Rumfelt, L.L., Avila, D., Diaz, M., McKinney, E.C., and Flajnik, M.F. 2001.  A shark antibody heavy chain encoded by a nonsomatically rearranged VDJ is preferentially expressed in early development and is convergent with mammalian IgG.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 98:1775-1780.

Lee, S.S., Fitch, D., Flajnik, M.F., and Hsu, E. 2000. Rearrangement of immunoglobulin genes in shark germ cells.  J. Exp. Med. 191:1637-1648.

Ohta, Y., Okamura, K., McKinney, E.C., Bartl, S., Hashimoto, K., and Flajnik, M.F.  2000. Primitive synteny of vertebrate major histocompatibility complex class I and class II genes.  Proc. Natl. Acad.  Sci. 97:4712-4717.

Flajnik, M.F. 2002.  Comparative analysis of immunoglobulin genes: surprises and portents.  Nature Reviews Immunology 2:688-698