Nucleic acid structures and enzymes in the immunoglobulin class switch recombination mechanism

DNA Repair

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1163-1174

  Yu, Kefei ^a   Lieber, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abasic site; Deaminase; Immunoglobulin gene rearrangement; Isotype switching; Non B form DNA; R loop; Uracil glycosylase

Indexed keywords

CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; DEAMINASE; DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PROTEIN; PROTEIN AID; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

B LYMPHOCYTE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SWITCHING; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETROPOSON; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0242268033     PISSN: 15687864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2003.08.010     Document Type: Short Survey

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