The 3’ IgH regulatory region: A complex structure in a search for a function

Advances in Immunology

Volumn 75, Issue , 2000, Pages 317-345

  Khamlichi, Ahmed Amine ^a   Pinaud, Eric ^a   Decourt, Catherine ^a   Chauveau, Christine ^a   Cogné, Michel ^a  

^a INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

B LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SWITCHING; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0033918521     PISSN: 00652776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2776(00)75008-5     Document Type: Review

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