Emerging links between hypermutation of antibody genes and DNA polymerases

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 187-192

  Gearhart, Patricia J ^a   Wood, Richard D ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA REPAIR; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MUTATION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; DNA REPAIR; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; MUTATION;

EID: 0035753523     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35105009     Document Type: Review

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