Different patterns of bcl-6 and p53 gene mutations in tonsillar B cells indicate separate mutational mechanisms

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 39, Issue 7-8, 2002, Pages 485-493

  Yavuz, Akif S ^a,b   Monson, Nancy L ^a   Yavuz, Sule ^a,b   Grammer, Amrie C ^a,b   Longo, Nancy ^b   Girschick, Hermann J ^a   Lipsky, Peter E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

B lymphocytes; Human; Oncogenes; T lymphocytes

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BCL 6; PROTEIN P53;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MEMORY CELL; MUTATION RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; T LYMPHOCYTE; TONSIL CELL;

B-LYMPHOCYTES; CHILD; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; GENES, P53; HUMANS; MUTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-6; TONSIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0036842153     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-5890(02)00117-7     Document Type: Article

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