Evidence that immunoglobulin V(H)-DJ recombination does not require germ line transcription of the recombining variable gene segment

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 6253-6264

  Angelin Duclos, Cristina ^a   Calame, Kathryn ^a  

^a Columbia Univ Coll Phys Surgs ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; RAG2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; V(D)J RECOMBINATION ACTIVATING PROTEIN 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM LINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELL; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; GERM CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE MUTANT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; GENES, RAG-1; GERM CELLS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0031595346     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.11.6253     Document Type: Article

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