Junctional diversity in signal joints from T cell receptor beta and delta loci via terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase and exonucleolytic activity

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 184, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1919-1926

  Candéias, Serge ^a,b   Muegge, Kathrin ^a   Durum, Scott K ^b  

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINASE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FETUS; GENE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0029852090     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.184.5.1919     Document Type: Article

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