Ku80 is required for immunoglobulin isotype switching

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2404-2411

  Casellas, Rafael ^b   Nussenzweig, Andre ^a   Wuerffel, Robert ^a   Pelanda, Roberta ^d,e   Reichlin, Amy ^a   Suh, Heikyung ^a,c   Qin, Xiao Feng ^a   Besmer, Eva ^a,c   Kenter, Amy ^a   Rajewsky, Klaus ^d   Nussenzweig, Michel C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Class switch recombination; DNA repair; Immunoglobulin genes; Ku80

Indexed keywords

DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERLEUKIN 4; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GERM LINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIVISION; DNA HELICASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, LIGHT CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN MU-CHAINS; MICE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032522564     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.8.2404     Document Type: Article

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