B-cell repertoire formation: Role of the recombination signal sequence in non-random V segment utilization

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 175, Issue , 2000, Pages 59-69

  Feeney, Ann J ^a   Tang, Alan ^a   Ogwaro, Kisani M ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ALLELE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IN VIVO STUDY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MICE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033918155     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-065X.2000.017508.x     Document Type: Article

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