Gene conversion and homologous recombination in murine B cells

Seminars in Immunology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 151-158

  Selsing, Erik ^a   Xu, Bo ^a   Sigurdardottir, Dagmar ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody genes; DNA repair; Gene conversion; Somatic hypermutation; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOMATIC MUTATION; TRANSGENE;

EID: 0029938761     PISSN: 10445323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/smim.1996.0019     Document Type: Article

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