Overexpression of bcl-2 alters usage of mutational hot spots in germinal center B cells

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 34, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 1011-1018

  Kuo, Philip ^a   Alban, Alvaro ^a   Gebhard, David ^a   Diamond, Betty ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2;

EID: 0031422144     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-5890(97)00117-X     Document Type: Article

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