Regulation of IgM and IgD Heavy Chain Gene Expression: Effect of Abrogation of Intergenic Transcriptional Termination

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 157, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 2073-2081

  Yuan, Dorothy ^a   Witte, Pamela L ^b   Tan, Jing ^a   Hawley, Judith ^a   Dang, Tam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN D; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL LINE; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MUTATION; RNA SPLICING; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL LINE; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN D; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0030240763     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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