Extensive junctional diversity in Ig light chain genes from early B cell progenitors of μMT mice

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 2123-2128

  Bentolila, Laurent A ^a   Olson, Stacy ^b   Marshall, Aaron ^b   Rougeon, François ^a   Paige, Christopher J ^b   Doyen, Noëlle ^a   Wu, Gillian E ^b,c  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD45 ANTIGEN; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; LEUKOSIALIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; NUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOBLAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, LIGHT CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ISOTYPES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN J-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN MU-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; LYMPHOPENIA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; READING FRAMES; STEM CELLS;

EID: 0033558052     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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