Extensive CDR3H length heterogeneity exists in bovine foetal VDJ rearrangements

Scandinavian Journal of Immunology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 140-148

  Saini, S S ^a   Kaushik, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CATTLE; CELL MATURATION; CODON; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GERM LINE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONTOGENY; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION; SPLEEN CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CODON; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; DNA; FETUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS; HYBRIDOMAS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN JOINING REGION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036227682     PISSN: 03009475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3083.2002.01028.x     Document Type: Article

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