Immunoglobulin class switch recombination machinery: Progress and challenges

Clinical Immunology

Volumn 95, Issue 1 I, 2000, Pages 1-8

  Zhang, Ke ^a  

^a Hart and Louse Lyon Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; DNA; DNA DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0034038029     PISSN: 15216616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/clim.2000.4848     Document Type: Review

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