Rearrangement of λ light chain genes in mature B cells in vitro and in vivo. Function of reexpressed recombination-activating gene (RAG) products

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 187, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 795-799

  Hikida, Masaki ^a   Ohmori, Hitoshi ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SEPARATION; DNA DETERMINATION; EXON; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNIZATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, LIGHT CHAIN; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA-CHAINS; INTERLEUKIN-4; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0032473559     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.187.5.795     Document Type: Article

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