Maturation of the Antibody Response to the Major Epitope on the Self Antigen Mouse Cytochrome c: Restricted V Gene Usage, Selected Mutations, and Increased Affinity

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 157, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 5329-5338

  Mueller, Carolyn M ^a   Jemmerson, Ronald ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Box 196 UMHC ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; AUTOANTIGEN; CYTOCHROME C;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; GENETICS; HYBRIDOMA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TIME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HYBRIDOMAS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030589359     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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