Cutting edge: Hypermutation in Ig V genes from mice deficient in the MLH1 mismatch repair protein

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 3121-3124

  Phung, Quy H ^a,b   Winter, David B ^a   Alrefai, Rudaina ^a   Gearhart, Patricia J ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PROTEIN MLH1; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARRIER PROTEIN; MLH1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TUMOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BASE MISPAIRING; DNA REPAIR; FERTILITY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CLONE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOUSE MUTANT; MOUSE STRAIN; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONE CELLS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA REPAIR; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS;

EID: 0033558532     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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