Cutting edge: IFN-γ regulated germline transcripts are expressed from γ2a transgenes independently of the heavy chain 3' enhancers

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 163, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 5758-5762

  Collins, John T ^a   Dunnick, Wesley A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Medical Science Building II ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOREGULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERM CELLS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; INTERFERON TYPE II; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0033485958     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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