Receptor editing in a transgenic mouse model: Site, efficiency, and role in B cell tolerance and antibody diversification

Immunity

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 765-775

  Pelanda, Roberta ^a,c   Schwers, Stephan ^a   Sonoda, Eiichiro ^a,d   Torres, Raul M ^a,e   Nemazee, David ^b   Rajewsky, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW CELL; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0031424315     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(00)80395-7     Document Type: Article

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