Alternative splicing and hypermutation of a nonproductively rearranged TCR α-chain in a T cell hybridoma

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 871-877

  Marshall, Brendan ^a   Schulz, Ruth ^b   Zhou, Min ^a   Mellor, Andrew ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HYBRIDOMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; SOMATIC MUTATION; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL SEPARATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT, ALPHA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; HYBRIDOMAS; INTRONS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 0033555812     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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