T cell receptor gene rearrangement lineage analysis reveals clues for the origin of highly restricted antigen-specific repertoires

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 197, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 601-614

  Hamrouni, Abdelbasset ^a   Aublin, Anne ^a   Guillaume, Philippe ^b   Maryanski, Janet L ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antigen; Cell lineage; Lymphocytes; Receptors; Sequence analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; BASE SEQUENCE; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL LINEAGE; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, ALPHA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0037416206     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20021945     Document Type: Article

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