The structure, rearrangement, and ontogenic expression of DB and JB gene segments of the Mexican axolotl T-cell antigen receptor beta chain (TCRB)

Immunogenetics

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 275-285

  Kerfourn, Fabienne ^a   Charlemagne, Jacques ^a   Fellah, Julien S ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; PHENYLALANINE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN; THREONINE; VALINE;

AMBYSTOMA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; LYMPHOID ORGAN; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE; THYMOCYTE;

AGING; AMBYSTOMA MEXICANUM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA; SPLEEN; THYMUS GLAND;

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA MEXICANUM; AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029791381     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050124     Document Type: Article

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