Immunoglobulin Gene Conversion: Insights from Bursal B Cells and the DT40 Cell Line

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 229, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 458-464

  Arakawa, Hiroshi ^a   Buerstedde, Jean Marie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

AID; Chicken; DT40; Gene conversion; Somatic hypermutation; The bursa of Fabricius

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GUANINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; RAD51 PROTEIN; RAD52 PROTEIN; RAD54 PROTEIN; RAG2 PROTEIN; THYMINE; TRANSFERASE;

B LYMPHOCYTE; BURSA FABRICII; CELL MATURATION; GENE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DISRUPTION; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PEYER PATCH; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BURSA OF FABRICIUS; CELL LINE; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE CONVERSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENES; RAD52 DNA REPAIR AND RECOMBINATION PROTEIN; RNA EDITING; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 1542348470     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.10495     Document Type: Review

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