Extended duration of DH-JH rearrangement in immunoglobulin heavy chain transgenic mice: Implications for regulation of allelic exclusion

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 189, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1295-1305

  Chang, Yung ^a,b   Bosma, Melvin J ^a   Bosma, Gayle C ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allelic exclusion; B cell differentiation; Immunoglobulin transgenic mice; V(D)J rearrangement

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MICE; MICE, SCID; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SPLEEN; STEM CELLS;

EID: 0033583434     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.189.8.1295     Document Type: Article

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