The creation of diversity in the human immunoglobulin V(λ) repertoire

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 268, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 69-77

  Ignatovich, Olga ^a   Tomlinson, Ian M ^a   Jones, Peter T ^a,b   Winter, Greg ^a,b  

^a MRC CENTRE FOR PROTEIN ENGINEERING   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibody; Diversity; Immunoglobulin; Lambda; Light chain

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA CHAIN;

ANTIBODY COMBINING SITE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION;

EID: 0031586002     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.0956     Document Type: Article

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