Immunoglobulin β signaling regulates locus accessibility for ordered immunoglobulin gene rearrangements

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 191, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1333-1340

  Maki, Kazushige ^a   Nagata, Kisaburo ^a   Kitamura, Fujiko ^a   Takemori, Toshitada ^b   Karasuyama, Hajime ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allelic exclusion; B cell development; Pre B cell receptor; Recombinase; Surrogate light chain

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE INDUCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE REPRESSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, ANTI-IDIOTYPIC; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DNA PRIMERS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0034678399     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.191.8.1333     Document Type: Article

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