Impact of DNA ligase IV on nonhomologous end joining pathways during class switch recombination in human cells

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 201, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 189-194

  Pan Hammarström, Qiang ^a   Jones, Anne Marie ^b   Lähdesmäki, Aleksi ^a   Zhou, Wei ^a   Gatti, Richard A ^c   Hammarström, Lennart ^a   Gennery, Andrew R ^d   Ehrenstein, Michael R ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NEWCASTLE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE IV; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DNA RECOMBINATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SWITCHING; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA LIGASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 13244268505     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20040772     Document Type: Article

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