Antibody class switch recombinase activity is B cell stage specific and functions stochastically in the absence of 'targeted accessibility' control

International Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 963-974

  Ballantyne, Jack ^a   Henry, Diane L ^a   Marcu, Kenneth B ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BCl1B1; Retroviral vectors; Switch sequences

Indexed keywords

GANCICLOVIR; HYGROMYCIN; HYGROMYCIN B; NEOMYCIN; RECOMBINASE; THYMIDINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; GENETIC VECTORS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; HYGROMYCIN B; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CONSTANT REGIONS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; MICE; NEOMYCIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RETROVIRIDAE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THYMIDINE KINASE; VDJ RECOMBINASES;

EID: 0030924345     PISSN: 09538178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intimm/9.7.963     Document Type: Article

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