Allelic exclusion in pTα-deficient mice: No evidence for cell surface expression of two T cell receptor (TCR)-β chains, but less efficient inhibition of endogeneous vβ→(D)Jβ rearrangements in the presence of a functional TCR-β transgene

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 186, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 767-775

  Krotkova, Anna ^a   Von Boehmer, Harald ^b   Fehling, Hans Jörg ^a  

^a BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; ANTIBODY; CD3 ANTIGEN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PRE T CELL RECEPTOR ALPHA; PRE-T CELL RECEPTOR ALPHA;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; TRANSGENE; AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ALLELE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPH NODE; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THYMUS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIGENS, CD3; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; LYMPH NODES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0030610189     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.186.5.767     Document Type: Article

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