Evidence that the Igκ gene MAR regulates the probability of premature V-J joining and somatic hypermutation

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 6029-6039

  Yi, Ming ^a   Wu, Peiqing ^b   Trevorrow, Kenneth W ^a   Claflin, Latham ^b   Garrard, William T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN J CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE DELETION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HETEROZYGOTE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLYMPHOCYTE; SOMATIC MUTATION; ANIMAL; DNA METHYLATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOUSE MUTANT; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROBABILITY; RNA PROCESSING;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN JOINING REGION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTAGENESIS; PROBABILITY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0033561793     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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