Avidity Maturation, Repertoire Shift, and Strain Differences in Antibodies to Bacterial Levan, a Type 2 Thymus-Independent Polysaccharide Antigen

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 157, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1996-2005

  Boswell, Calla M ^a   Stein, Kathryn E ^a  

^a CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; FRUCTAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; INULIN; LEVAN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; THYMUS INDEPENDENT ANTIGEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CBA MOUSE; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ANTIGENS, T-INDEPENDENT; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FRUCTANS; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; INULIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED CBA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030240108     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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