Hypermutation in antibody affinity maturation

Current Opinion in Immunology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 186-189

  Wabl, Matthias ^a   Cascalho, Marilia ^a   Steinberg, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

ANTIBODY AFFINITY; BASE MISPAIRING; DNA REPAIR; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0033118782     PISSN: 09527915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0952-7915(99)80031-4     Document Type: Article

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