Mechanisms for feedback inhibition of the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus

Current Opinion in Immunology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 235-240

  Chowdhury, Dipanjan ^a   Sen, Ranjan ^b  

^a Centre for Blood Research   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

B cell receptor; BCR; D; Diversity gene segment; ERK; Extracellular signal related kinase; H; Heavy; Ig; IL; Immune receptor tyrosine based activation motif; Immunoglobulin; Interleukin; ITAM; J; Joining gene segment; L; Light; MAPK; Mitogen activated protein kinase

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; INTERLEUKIN 7; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; NUCLEASE;

ACETYLATION; ALLELIC EXCLUSION; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; INHIBITION KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; INTERLEUKIN-7; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 1542381073     PISSN: 09527915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2004.02.003     Document Type: Review

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