Residues Critical for H-L Disulfide Bond Formation in Human IgA1 and IgA2

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 157, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 3443-3449

  Chintalacharuvu, Koteswara R ^a   Morrison, Sherie L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DISULFIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; KINETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDES; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 0030587893     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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