Deletion of the Igκ light chain intronic enhancer/matrix attachment region impairs but does not abolish VκJκ rearrangement

Immunity

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 377-385

  Xu, Yang ^a   Davidson, Laurie ^b   Alt, Frederick W ^b   Baltimore, David ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINE; CHIMERA; DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CHIMERA; DNA PRIMERS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, LIGHT CHAIN; HYBRIDOMAS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; INTRONS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0029967078     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(00)80251-4     Document Type: Article

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