Recombination-activating genes, transposition, and the lymphoid-specific combinatorial immune system: A common evolutionary connection

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 248, Issue , 2000, Pages 111-135

  Hansen, J D ^a   McBlane, J F ^a  

^a BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN J CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

B LYMPHOCYTE; DNA REPAIR; EVOLUTION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RECEPTOR GENE; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSPOSON; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, T-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, RAG-1; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033970135     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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