Enhancers of hypermutation

Immunogenetics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 59-64

  Bachl, Juergen ^a,b   Wabl, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CELL LINE; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029965649     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050167     Document Type: Article

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