Antibody repertoires of four- and five-feature translocus mice carrying human immunoglobulin heavy chain and κ and λ light chain yeast artificial chromosomes

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 163, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 6898-6906

  Nicholson, Ian C ^a,b   Zou, Xiangang ^b   Popov, Andrei V ^b,c   Cook, Graham P ^d   Corps, Elaine M ^b   Humphries, Sally ^b   Ayling, Christine ^b   Goyenechea, Beatriz ^b   Xian, Jian ^b   Taussig, Michael J ^b   Neuberger, Michael S ^d   Brüggemann, Marianne ^b  

^a WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGENETICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, LIGHT CHAIN; HUMANS; HYBRIDOMAS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL;

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