A Third Ig Light Chain Gene Isotype in Xenopus laevis Consists of Six Distinct VL Families and Is Related to Mammalian λ Genes

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 157, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1544-1550

  Haire, Robert N ^a   Ota, Tatsuya ^b   Rast, Jonathan P ^a   Litman, Ronda T ^a   Chan, Fung Y ^c   Zon, Leonard I ^c   Litman, Gary W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CONSTANT REGION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOLOGY; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPLEEN; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CONSTANT REGIONS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ISOTYPES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030586688     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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