Somatic hypermutation of an artificial test substrate within an Igκ transgene

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 782-790

  Klotz, Emily L ^a,b   Hackett Jr , John ^a,c   Storb, Ursula ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; HYBRIDOMA; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PEYER PATCH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD45; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD GROUP ANTIGENS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HYBRIDOMAS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PEANUT AGGLUTININ; PEYER'S PATCHES; SHEEP; SPLEEN; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0032528421     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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