Receptor editing occurs frequently during normal B cell development

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 188, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1231-1238

  Retter, Marc W ^a   Nemazee, David ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

B lymphocytes; Immune tolerance; Receptor editing; Recombining sequence recombination; V(D)J rearrangements

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPLEEN CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; INTRONS; LEUKOPOIESIS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL;

EID: 0032487518     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.188.7.1231     Document Type: Article

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