In vivo and in vitro studies of immunoglobulin gene somatic hypermutation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 355, Issue 1405, 2001, Pages 21-28

  Sale, J E ^a   Bemark, M ^a   Williams, G T ^a   Jolly, C J ^a   Ehrenstein, M R ^a   Rada, C ^a   Milstein, C ^a   Neuberger, M S ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Class switch recombination; DNA dependent protein kinase; Immunoglobulin; Somatic hypermutation; Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase; Translocation

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; SOMATIC MUTATION;

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS;

ANIMAL; BASE PAIRING; DNA DAMAGE; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MUTATION; ONCOGENE MYC; REVIEW; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DNA DAMAGE; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENES, MYC; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ISOTYPES; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0035966786     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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