Somatic hypermutability

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 217, Issue , 1996, Pages 203-219

  Wabl, Matthias ^a   Steinberg, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CELL MATURATION; CROSS REACTION; GENE DELETION; GENETIC STABILITY; GERMINAL CENTER; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 0030391183     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-50140-1_14     Document Type: Article

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