Mechanism of antigen-driven somatic hypermutation of rearranged immunoglobulin V(D)J genes in the mouse

Immunology and Cell Biology

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 82-95

  Steele, Edward J ^a,b   Rothenfluh, Harald S ^a,b   Blanden, Robert V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

B cell development; germinal centre; reverse transcriptase; somatic hypermutation; telomerase like particle

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

B LYMPHOCYTE; DEVELOPMENT; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MOUSE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0031047442     PISSN: 08189641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/icb.1997.12     Document Type: Review

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