Dominance of intrinsic genetic factors in shaping the human immunoglobulin V(λ) repertoire

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 294, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 457-465

  Ignatovich, Olga ^a   Tomlinson, Ian M ^a,b   Popov, Andrei V ^c   Brüggemann, Marianne ^c   Winter, Greg ^a,b  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC CENTRE FOR PROTEIN ENGINEERING   (United Kingdom)

^c BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Immunoglobulin; Lambda; Rearrangement; Repertoire; Transgenic mouse

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0033607492     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.3243     Document Type: Article

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