Rheumatoid factor idiotypic and antigenic specificity is strongly influenced by the light chain VJ junction

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 156, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 3570-3575

  Zhang, Meilin ^a   Spey, David ^a   Ackerman, Steven ^a   Majid, Adrian ^a   Davidson, Anne ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN IDIOTYPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; EPITOPES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN IDIOTYPES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN J-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0029992045     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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