Nucleotide sequences of env and 3'LTROrf genes of endogenous mouse mammary tumor viruses encoding superantigen specific for TcrVβ2

Immunogenetics

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 319-320

  Nakamura, Nobuhisa ^a   Wajjwalku, Worawidh ^a   Nishimura, Hitoshi ^a   Okubo, Hikaru ^a   Niimi, Naoya ^a   Ando, Yoshihiro ^a   Yoshikai, Yasunobu ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; SUPERANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENVELOPE GENE; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOUSE; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 0029834472     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02602565     Document Type: Article

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