Late embryonic lethality and impaired V(D)J recombination in mice lacking DNA ligase IV

Nature

Volumn 396, Issue 6707, 1998, Pages 173-177

  Frank, Karen M ^a   Sekiguchi, Joann M ^a   Seidl, Katherine J ^a   Swat, Wojciech ^a   Rathbun, Gary A ^a   Cheng, Hwei Ling ^a   Davidson, Laurie ^a   Kangaloo, Landy ^a   Alt, Frederick W ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN KINASE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; LETHAL MUTANT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DNA LIGASES; DNA REPAIR; FIBROBLASTS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TARGETING; GENES, LETHAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; LYMPHOCYTES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTAGENESIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032511976     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/24172     Document Type: Article

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