Amino acid insertions and deletions contribute to diversify: The human Ig repertoire

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 162, Issue , 1998, Pages 143-151

  Wilson, Patrick ^a   Liu, Yong Jun ^b   Banchereau, Jacques ^c   Capra, J Donald ^a   Pascual, Virginia ^d  

^a OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c BAYLOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOMATIC MUTATION; TONSIL; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0031916926     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.1998.tb01437.x     Document Type: Article

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