Independent regulation of the two Pax5 alleles during B-cell development

Nature Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 390-395

  Nutt, Stephen L ^a   Vambrie, Susanne ^a   Steinlein, Peter ^a   Kozmik, Zbynek ^c   Rolink, Antonius ^b   Weith, Andreas ^a   Busslinger, Meinrad ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; B-CELL-SPECIFIC ACTIVATOR PROTEIN; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BONE MARROW; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IKAROS TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LIVER; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032899415     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/7720     Document Type: Article

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