Somatic hypermutation of antibody genes: A hot spot warms up

BioEssays

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 227-234

  Green, Nancy S ^a   Lin, Mark M ^a   Scharff, Matthew D ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; POINT MUTATION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; POINT MUTATION; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0032031016     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-1878(199803)20:3<227::AID-BIES6>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Review

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