The generation of antibody diversity through somatic hypermutation and class switch recombination

Genes and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-11

  Li, Ziqiang ^a   Woo, Caroline J ^a   Iglesias Ussel, Maria D ^a   Ronai, Diana ^a   Scharff, Matthew D ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION INDUCED CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; DNA POLYMERASE; MISMATCH REPAIR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URACIL DERIVATIVE; URACIL N GLYCOSYLASE;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; BASE MISPAIRING; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CLASS SWITCH RECOMBINATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; MISMATCH REPAIR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; DNA REPAIR; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0347758541     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1161904     Document Type: Review

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