Expression and function of recombination activating genes in mature b cells

Critical Reviews in Immunology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 221-235

  Ohmori, Hitoshi ^a   Hikida, Masaki ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Germinal center; Mature B cell; Receptor editing; Recombination activating gene; V(D)J rearrangement

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; LYMPHOID TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; GERMINAL CENTER; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LYMPHOID TISSUE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS;

EID: 0031391172     PISSN: 10408401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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