Increase of TCR Vβ accessibility within Eβ regulatory region influences its recombination frequency but not allelic exclusion

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 829-835

  Senoo, Makoto ^a   Wang, Lili ^a   Suzuki, Daisuke ^a   Takeda, Naoki ^b   Shinkai, Yoichi ^c   Habu, Sonoko ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; PHOSPHOGLYCERATE KINASE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; ALLELIC EXCLUSION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM LINE; HYBRIDOMA CELL CULTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; THYMOCYTE; THYMOMA;

EID: 0038783581     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.171.2.829     Document Type: Article

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