Comparative analysis of invertebrate Tc6 sequences that resemble the vertebrate V(D)J recombination signal sequences (RSS)

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 481-488

  Dreyfus, David H ^a   Gelfand, Erwin W ^a  

^a NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

IS630 Tcl transposon; Palindromes; RAG; Transposase

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN J CHAIN; PALINDROMIC DNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN P53;

ARTICLE; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; INVERTEBRATE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE DELETION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, RAG-1; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS;

EID: 0032806823     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-5890(99)00034-6     Document Type: Article

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