Most α/β T cell receptor diversity is due to terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 194, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1385-1390

  Cabaniols, Jean Pierre ^a   Fazilleau, Nicolas ^a   Casrouge, Armanda ^a   Kourilsky, Philippe ^a   Kanellopoulos, Jean M ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

CDR3; Knockout mice; T cell receptor; T cell repertoire; Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase

Indexed keywords

DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR ALPHA; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR BETA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0035172347     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.194.9.1385     Document Type: Article

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