VH gene usage in immunoglobulin E responses of seasonal rhinitis patients allergic to grass pollen is oligoclonal and antigen driven

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 429-436

  Davies, J M ^a,b   O'Hehir, R E ^a,b  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complementarity determining region; IgE; Seasonal rhinitis; Somatic hypermutation; VH gene

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; SUPERANTIGEN;

ADULT; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; CASE REPORT; CLONAL VARIATION; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRASS POLLEN; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGENETICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOMATIC MUTATION;

ADULT; ALLERGENS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POACEAE; POLLEN; RECEPTOR-CD3 COMPLEX, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, SEASONAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 1642312176     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2004.01900.x     Document Type: Article

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