Evidence that terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase expression plays a role in Ig heavy chain gene segment utilization

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 164, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 6387-6397

  Tuaillon, Nadine ^a,b   Capra, J Donald ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN J CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0034660137     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.12.6387     Document Type: Article

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