Target specificity of immunoglobulin class switch recombination is not determined by nucleotide sequences of S regions

Immunity

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 849-858

  Kinoshita, Kazuo ^a   Tashiro, Junko ^a   Tomita, Shuhei ^a   Lee, Chung Gi ^a   Honjo, Tasuku ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA TRANSFECTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0032428658     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(00)80650-0     Document Type: Article

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