A point mutation within CD45 exon A is the cause of variant CD45RA splicing in humans

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 22-29

  Zilch, Christian F ^a   Walker, Andrew M ^b   Timón, Marcos ^c   Goff, Lindsey K ^a,b   Wallace, Diana L ^a,c   Beverley, Peter C L ^a,c  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c EDWARD JENNER INST FOR VACC RES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; CD45; Minigene; Somatic cell hybrid; T cell

Indexed keywords

CD45 ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR;

ALLELE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYBRID CELL; LYMPHOID CELL LINE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0031984481     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4141(199801)28:01<22::AID-IMMU22>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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