Junctional diversity in Xenopus immunoglobulin light chains

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 36, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 1159-1168

  Ji, Youngran ^a   Desravines, Soléenne ^a   Hsu, Ellen ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody diversity; Evolution; Light chain

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CODON; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; ANTIBODY FORMATION; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, LIGHT CHAIN; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; XENOPUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0033389717     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-5890(99)00123-6     Document Type: Article

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