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organism to fused moleculechimera2 CONSTRUCTSGenetic chimeraWINKLER · GRAFT ORGANISMChimeric moleculeMORRISON · FUSED MOLECULE

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Genetics and developmental biology

An organism made of two genotypes

Hans Winkler brought the word into biology in 1907 in Über Pfropfbastarde und pflanzliche Chimären, naming a grafted plant in which tissues of two different species are combined in one individual. Tarkowski's 1961 Mouse chimæras developed from fused eggs carried the idea into animals, producing mice whose bodies contain cells from two distinct fertilised eggs, so a single organism carries two genotypes. The referent is a whole living thing built from more than one genetic line, described at the level of cells and tissues, unlike the fictional monster of the poets or a single engineered protein.[1][2]

Unit
One organism carrying cells of two or more genotypes
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Detected by genotyping tissues, tracking cell markers, or observing mixed traits across the body

Immunology and medicine

An engineered fusion protein

Morrison, Johnson, Herzenberg, and Oi's 1984 Chimeric human antibody molecules built a single antibody from a mouse antigen-binding region joined to a human constant region, giving the word a molecular meaning, one protein assembled from parts of two sources. Gross, Waks, and Eshhar's 1989 Expression of immunoglobulin-T-cell receptor chimeric molecules extended this to the chimeric antigen receptor, the fusion protein now placed on a patient's T cells in CAR-based cancer therapy. The referent is a designed molecule that combines segments of different origins, measured by how it binds and signals in the laboratory, not a mythical animal or an organism made of two cell lines.[3][4]

Unit
One engineered protein fusing segments from two sources
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Assessed by binding affinity, expression, and signalling in cell and animal assays

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hybrid3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructsmosaic3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructsgraft3 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

  1. Winkler, H. (1907). Über Pfropfbastarde und pflanzliche Chimären. Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft, 25, 568–576. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01990568
  2. Tarkowski, A. K. (1961). Mouse chimæras developed from fused eggs. Nature, 190(4779), 857–860. https://doi.org/10.1038/190857a0
  3. Morrison, S. L., Johnson, M. J., Herzenberg, L. A., & Oi, V. T. (1984). Chimeric human antibody molecules: Mouse antigen-binding domains with human constant region domains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 81(21), 6851–6855. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.81.21.6851
  4. Gross, G., Waks, T., & Eshhar, Z. (1989). Expression of immunoglobulin-T-cell receptor chimeric molecules as functional receptors with antibody-type specificity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 86(24), 10024–10028. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.86.24.10024

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