Accessibility control of variable region gene assembly during T-cell development

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 165, Issue , 1998, Pages 121-130

  Sleckman, Barry P ^a   Bassing, Craig H ^a   Bardon, Christiana G ^a   Okada, Ami ^a   Khor, Bernard ^a   Bories, Jean Christophe ^a   Monroe, Robert ^a   Alt, Frederick W ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

DNA RECOMBINATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE;

EID: 0031727108     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.1998.tb01235.x     Document Type: Review

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