Di- and tri-nucleotide target preferences of somatic mutagenesis in normal and autoreactive B cells

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 156, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2642-2652

  Smith, Diana S ^a   Creadon, Geralyn ^a   Jena, Prasanna K ^a   Portanova, Joseph P ^c   Kotzin, Brian L ^a,b   Wysocki, Lawrence J ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION; TANDEM REPEAT; TARGET CELL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; HYBRIDOMAS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES;

EID: 0029947265     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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