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Its presence in chickens may be related to differences in the properties of B-cell development between chickens and mammalian species. It has no recognizable similarity to known mammalian molecules and thus represents a unique B-cell marker. The results show that chB6 is a typical type I transmembrane protein, highly glycosylated in the extracellular region and carrying a large intracellular region. We isolated a chB6 cDNA by expression cloning and sequenced two further alleles following polymerase chain reaction amplification. It has long been used as an allotypic marker in important studies of B-cell development, though its function is unknown. The chB6 molecule is expressed on chicken B cells throughout most of their development, as well as on some non-lymphoid cells.
