DNA breaks in hypermutating immunoglobulin genes: Evidence for a break-and-repair pathway of somatic hypermutation

Genetics

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 369-378

  Kong, Qingzhong ^a,c   Maizels, Nancy ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PYRIMIDINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GERMINAL CENTER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION;

EID: 0035003254     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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