Molecular mechanism of immunoglobulin class switch recombination

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 64, Issue , 1999, Pages 217-226

  Kinoshita, K ^a   Lee, C G ^a   Tashiro, J ^a   Muramatsu, M ^a   Chen, X C ^a   Yoshikawa, K ^a   Honjo, T ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS; GANCICLOVIR; GENOMIC DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERLEUKIN 4; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; THYMIDINE KINASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SPLICING; ANTIVIRAL RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CLASS SWITCH RECOMBINATION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DNA METHYLATION; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; LYMPHOMA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0033498622     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1999.64.217     Document Type: Conference Paper

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