Unique and unprecedented recombination mechanisms in class switching

Current Opinion in Immunology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 195-198

  Kinoshita, Kazuo ^a   Honjo, Tasuku ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS; RECOMBINASE;

DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; NOTE; RNA SPLICING; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE;

EID: 0034107832     PISSN: 09527915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0952-7915(99)00072-2     Document Type: Note

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