A human immunoglobulin λ locus is similarly well expressed in mice and humans

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 189, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1611-1619

  Popov, Andrei V ^a   Zou, Xiangang ^a   Xian, Jian ^a   Nicholson, Ian C ^a   Brüggemann, Marianne ^a  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human Ig translocus; Hypermutation; Light chain expression levels; Pre B cell activation; V gene usage

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYBRIDOMA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOUSE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; BONE MARROW CELLS; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SPLEEN;

EID: 0033577853     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.189.10.1611     Document Type: Article

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