κ chain monoallelic demethylation and the establishment of allelic exclusion

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1801-1811

  Mostoslavsky, Raul ^a   Singh, Nandita ^b   Kirillov, Andrei ^a   Pelanda, Roberta ^c   Cedar, Howard ^a   Chess, Andrew ^b,d   Bergman, Yehudit ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

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

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allelic exclusion; B lymphocytes; Immunoglobulin; Methylation

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN;

ALLELISM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032526136     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.12.1801     Document Type: Article

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