Different mismatch repair deficiencies all have the same effects on somatic hypermutation: Intact primary mechanism accompanied by secondary modifications

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 21-30

  Kim, Nayun ^a   Bozek, Grazyna ^a   Lo, James C ^a   Storb, Ursula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA mismatch repair; Immunoglobulin genes; Somatic hypermutation; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RNA POLYMERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENE MAPPING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC REGULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOMATIC MUTATION;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CODON, TERMINATOR; DNA REPAIR; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0033526760     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.190.1.21     Document Type: Article

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