Continued expression of recombination-activating genes and TCR gene recombination in human peripheral T cells

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2792-2799

  Li, Tong Tong ^a   Han, Shuhua ^a   Cubbage, Mike ^a   Zheng, Biao ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Germinal center; T cell antigen receptor; V(D)J recombination

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RAG1 PROTEIN; RAG2 PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEMORY CELL; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TONSIL CELL;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENES, RAG-1; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN JOINING REGION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0036773188     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-4141(2002010)32:10<2792::AID-IMMU2792>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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