Critical test of hot spot motifs for immunoglobulin hypermutation

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 3398-3403

  Bachl, Juergen ^a,b   Steinberg, Charles ^b   Wabl, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Palindrome; Revertant; Stop codon

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PALINDROMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOP CODON;

ANIMALS; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MUTATION;

EID: 0031460776     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830271239     Document Type: Article

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