Altered somatic hypermutation and reduced class-switch recombination in exonuclease 1-mutant mice

Nature Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 224-229

  Bardwell, Philip D ^a   Woo, Caroline J ^a   Wei, Kaichun ^a   Li, Ziqiang ^a   Martin, Alberto ^b   Sack, Stephen Z ^a   Parris, Tchaiko ^a   Edelmann, Winfried ^a   Scharff, Matthew D ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; EXONUCLEASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PROTEIN MLH1; PROTEIN MSH2;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MISMATCH REPAIR; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; CELL LINE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPAIR ENZYMES; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; MICE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION, IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

EID: 1142299546     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni1031     Document Type: Article

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