Four of five RAG-expressing JCκ(-/-) small pre-BII cells have no L chain gene rearrangements: Detection by high-efficiency single cell PCR

Immunity

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 309-316

  Yamagami, Tamotsu ^a   Ten Boekel, Edwin ^a   Schaniel, Christoph ^a   Andersson, Jan ^a   Rolink, Antonius ^a   Melchers, Fritz ^a  

^a BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINEAGE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL COUNT; GENETICS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; METHODOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA CHAIN; RAG 1 PROTEIN; RAG-1 PROTEIN; RAG2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; V(D)J RECOMBINATION ACTIVATING PROTEIN 2;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL COUNT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, LIGHT CHAIN; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN JOINING REGION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA-CHAINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0033181345     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(00)80106-5     Document Type: Article

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