Comparable heavy and light chain pairings in normal and systemic lupus erythematosus IgG+ B cells

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 254-261

  De Wildt, Ruud M T ^a,b   Tomlinson, Ian M ^b   Van Venrooij, Walther J ^a   Winter, Greg ^b   Hoet, René M A ^a,c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; IgG B cell; SLE; Somatic hypermutation; V(H) and V(L) pairing

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ADULT; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MUTATION;

EID: 0033989815     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-4141(200001)30:1<254::AID-IMMU254>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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