Constitutive Expression of Terminal Deoxynucleotidyl Transferase in Transgenic Mice Is Sufficient for N Region Diversity to Occur at Any Ig Locus Throughout B Cell Differentiation

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 715-723

  Bentolila, Laurent A ^a   Wu, Gillian E ^b   Nourrit, Françoise ^a   D'Andon, Martine Fanton ^a   Rougeon, François ^a   Doyen, Noëlle ^a,c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOLOGY; MOUSE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE COMPOSITION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0031567975     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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