Locus 'decontraction' and centromeric recruitment contribute to allelic exclusion of the immunoglobulin heavy-chain gene

Nature Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 31-41

  Roldán, Esther ^a   Fuxa, Martin ^b   Chong, Winnie ^a   Martinez, Dolores ^c   Novatchkova, Maria ^b   Busslinger, Meinrad ^b   Skok, Jane A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; INTERLEUKIN 7;

ALLELE; ALLELIC EXCLUSION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SIZE; CENTROMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRE B LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENICS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC;

EID: 12344270023     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni1150     Document Type: Article

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