Evolution and the molecular basis of somatic hypermutation of antigen receptor genes

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 355, Issue 1405, 2001, Pages 67-72

  Diaz, M ^a   Flajnik, M F ^a   Klinman, N ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA polymerase zeta (Pol ); Evolution of somatic hypermutation; Gene conversion; Nurse shark antigen receptor; Pattern of mutation; Translesion synthesis

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; NURSE SHARK ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; REV7 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CHICKEN; GENE CONVERSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; RABBIT; REVIEW; SHARK; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE CONVERSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MICE; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; RABBITS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SHARKS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035966781     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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