Bovine IgM antibodies with exceptionally long complementarity-determining region 3 of the heavy chain share unique structural properties conferring restricted V H + Vλ pairings

International Immunology

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 845-853

  Saini, Surinder S ^a   Farrugia, William ^b   Ramsland, Paul A ^b   Kaushik, Azad K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b AUSTIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bovine V gene; VH + V pairing; V 1 gene family; VDJ rearrangement; VJ rearrangement

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; POLYPEPTIDE; SERINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY COMBINING SITE; ANTIBODY STRUCTURE; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BOVIDS; CATTLE; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GOAT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MAMMAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHEEP; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038350861     PISSN: 09538178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intimm/dxg083     Document Type: Article

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