Human Ig heavy chain CDR3 regions in adult bone marrow pre-B cells display an adult phenotype of diversity: Evidence for structural selection of D(H) amino acid sequences

International Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1503-1515

  Raaphorst, Frank M ^a   Raman, C S ^a   Tami, Joseph ^a,c   Fischbach, Michael ^a,b   Sanz, Iñaki ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b SOUTH TEXAS VETERANS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c ISIS PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigen receptor; B lymphocyte; Repertoire; VDJ rearrangement

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY COMBINING SITE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FETUS; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHENOTYPE; PRE B LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA PRIMERS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN D; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0030864457     PISSN: 09538178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intimm/9.10.1503     Document Type: Article

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