A DNA repair abnormality specific for rearranged immunoglobulin variable genes in germinal centre B cells

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 231-244

  Fairhurst, Rick M ^a   Valles Ayoub, Yadira ^b   Neshat, Mehran ^b   Braun, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA repair; Immunoglobulin variable genes; Somatic hypermutation; VH5

Indexed keywords

ENDOGENOUS COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; DNA REPAIR; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPAIR; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TONSIL; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0029882624     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0161-5890(95)00145-X     Document Type: Article

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