Biallelic germline transcription at the κ immunoglobulin locus

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 197, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 743-750

  Singh, Nandita ^a   Bergman, Yehudit ^c   Cedar, Howard ^c   Chess, Andrew ^a,b  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Allele exclusion; Germline transcription; Immunoglobulin

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; RNA;

ALLELIC EXCLUSION; ALLELISM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; CELL MATURATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAG GENE; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WILD TYPE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BETA 2-MICROGLOBULIN; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL LINEAGE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0345268756     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20021392     Document Type: Article

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