Efficient recombination of a switch substrate retrovector in CD40- activated B lymphocytes: Implications for the control of C(H) gene switch recombination

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1336-1347

  Ballantyne, Jack ^a   Henry, Diane L ^a   Muller, Jurgen R ^a   Briere, Francine ^b   Snapper, Clifford M ^c   Kehry, Marilyn ^d   Marcu, Kenneth B ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^d BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD40 ANTIGEN; VIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD40; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CONSTANT REGIONS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GAMMA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN MU-CHAINS; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERPHASE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED DBA; RETROVIRIDAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TONSIL;

EID: 0032145488     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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