Defect in rearrangement of the most 5' TCR-Jα following targeted deletion of T early α (TEA): Implications for TCR α locus accessibility

Immunity

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 331-342

  Villey, Isabelle ^a   Caillol, Danielle ^b   Selz, Françoise ^a   Ferrier, Pierre ^b   De Villartay, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE;

EID: 0030273709     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(00)80259-9     Document Type: Article

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