The tight interallelic positional coincidence that distinguishes T-cell receptor Jα usage does not result from homologous chromosomal pairing during VαJα rearrangement

EMBO Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 17, 2001, Pages 4717-4729

  Davodeau, François ^a   Difilippantonio, Michael ^b   Roldan, Esther ^c   Malissen, Marie ^d   Casanova, Jean Laurent ^e   Couedel, Chrystelle ^a   Morcet, Jean François ^a   Merkenschlager, Matthias ^c   Nussenzweig, André ^b   Bonneville, Marc ^a   Malissen, Bernard ^d  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE   (France)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d INSERM   (France)

^e Faculté de Médecine Necker   (France)

Author keywords

DNA recombination; Homologous chromosomal pairing; T cell; T cell receptor; V repertoire

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DNA RECOMBINATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE CLONE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONE CELLS; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; GENE REARRANGEMENT, ALPHA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR ALPHA; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR BETA; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INTRONS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; VDJ RECOMBINASES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 17944374688     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/20.17.4717     Document Type: Article

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