Somatic hypermutation in mouse λ chains

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 162, Issue , 1998, Pages 97-105

  Azuma, Takachika ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA CHAIN; LEUCINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ANTIBODY STRUCTURE; B LYMPHOCYTE; EXON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; INTRON; MEMORY CELL; MOUSE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SOMATIC MUTATION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; HUMANS; HYBRIDOMAS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA-CHAINS; MICE; MUTATION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0031953638     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.1998.tb01433.x     Document Type: Review

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