Diversification of rabbit V(H) genes by gene-conversion-like and hypermutation mechanisms

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 162, Issue , 1998, Pages 49-54

  Mage, Rose G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; MESSENGER RNA; SUPERANTIGEN;

ANTIBODY AFFINITY; APPENDIX; B LYMPHOCYTE; BIODIVERSITY; BURSA FABRICII; CHICKEN; CODON; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONVERSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GERM LINE; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOLOGY; INTESTINE; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MUTATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; B-LYMPHOCYTES; GENE CONVERSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; INTESTINES; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MUTATION; RABBITS;

EID: 0031596844     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.1998.tb01428.x     Document Type: Review

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