Evolutionary variation of immunoglobulin μ heavy chain RNA processing pathways: Origins, effects, and implications

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 166, Issue , 1998, Pages 143-151

  Ross, David A ^a   Wilson, Melanie R ^b   Miller, Norman W ^b   Clem, L William ^b   Warr, Gregory W ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; CELL RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN MU CHAIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MEMBRANE; FISH; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FISHES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN MU-CHAINS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032416412     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.1998.tb01259.x     Document Type: Review

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