Somatic insertions and deletions shape the human antibody repertoire

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 294, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 701-710

  De Wildt, Ruud M T ^a,b   Van Venrooij, Walther J ^b   Winter, Greg ^a   Hoet, René M A ^b,c   Tomlinson, Ian M ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antibody structure; Diversity; Immunoglobulin; Insertions and deletions; Somatic hypermutation

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; RECEPTOR;

ANTIBODY COMBINING SITE; ANTIBODY STRUCTURE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033521198     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.3289     Document Type: Article

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