Early function of Pax5 (BSAP) before the pre-B cell receptor stage of B lymphopoiesis

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 188, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 735-744

  Thévenin, Claire ^a,b   Nutt, Stephen L ^a   Busslinger, Meinrad ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

B cell specific activator protein; Ig transgene; Pax5; Pre B cell receptor; Pro B cell development

Indexed keywords

CD2 ANTIGEN; DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; LEUKOSIALIN; PROTEIN; RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; FETUS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRE B LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; B-CELL-SPECIFIC ACTIVATOR PROTEIN; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN MU-CHAINS; LEUKOPOIESIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032541309     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.188.4.735     Document Type: Article

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