The imprint of somatic hypermutation on the repertoire of human germline V genes

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 256, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 813-817

  Tomlinson, Ian M ^a   Walter, Gerald ^a,b,e   Jones, Peter T ^a,c   Dear, Paul H ^c   Sonnhammer, Erik L L ^d   Winter, Greg ^a,c  

^a MRC CENTRE FOR PROTEIN ENGINEERING   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDIMMUNE LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibody; Diversity; Evolution; Germline; Hypermutation

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIBODY STRUCTURE; ARTICLE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029961133     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0127     Document Type: Editorial

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