Changes in locus-specific V(D)J recombinase activity induced by immunoglobulin gene products during B cell development

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 185, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 609-620

  Constantinescu, Andrei ^a   Schlissel, Mark S ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Ross Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD2 ANTIGEN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GENE PRODUCT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; RECOMBINASE; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLYMPHOCYTE; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; FEMALE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; VDJ RECOMBINASES;

EID: 0031019217     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.185.4.609     Document Type: Article

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