Normal isotype switching in B cells lacking the Iμ exon splice donor site: Evidence for multiple Iμ-like germline transcripts

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1451-1457

  Kuzin, Igor I ^a   Ugine, Gregory D ^a   Wu, Dongming ^a   Young, Fay ^a   Chen, Jianzhu ^b   Bottaro, Andrea ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; ENHANCER REGION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXON; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HYBRIDOMA; HYPOTHESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

EID: 0034142023     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.3.1451     Document Type: Article

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