RAGged repair: What's new in V(D)J recombination

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 378, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 815-819

  Hagmann, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN J CHAIN; PROTEIN KINASE; RECOMBINASE;

ANIMAL MODEL; DNA METABOLISM; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALMONELLA; SCID MOUSE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA REPAIR; GENES, RAG-1; HUMANS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; MURINAE; PROKARYOTA; SALMONELLA;

EID: 0030861789     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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