Non-productive human TCR β chain genes represent V-D-J diversity before selection upon function: Insight into biased usage of TCRBD and TCRBJ genes and diversity of CDR3 region length

Human Immunology

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1090-1100

  Manfras, Burkhard J ^a   Terjung, Dirk ^a   Boehm, Bernhard O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

CDR3 length diversity; TCR chain genes; TCR repertoire; V D J rearrangement; V N D N J junctions

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; DNA PRIMERS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0032757547     PISSN: 01988859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0198-8859(99)00099-3     Document Type: Article

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