Accessibility control of antigen-receptor variable-region gene assembly: Role of cis-acting elements

Annual Review of Immunology

Volumn 14, Issue , 1996, Pages 459-481

  Sleckman, Barry P ^b   Gorman, James R ^b   Alt, Frederick W ^b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

accessibility; lymphocyte development; transcriptional control elements; V(D)J recombination

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; RECOMBINASE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; CIS ISOMER; ENHANCER REGION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE ORDER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029983727     PISSN: 07320582     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.immunol.14.1.459     Document Type: Review

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