Sequence analysis of 0.5 Mb of the rabbit germline immunoglobulin heavy chain locus

Gene

Volumn 330, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 49-59

  Ros, Francesca ^a,c   Puels, Juergen ^a,c   Reichenberger, Nicole ^a,c   Van Schooten, Wim ^b   Buelow, Roland ^b   Platzer, Josef ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b THP Inc   (United States)

^c THP GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allotype; Antibody; Antibody diversity; BAC; BAC library; Bacterial artificial chromosome; Base pair(s); Bp; C; Constant; D; Diversity; FR; Framework; Gene conversion; Ig; Immunoglobulin(s); J; Joining; Kb; Kilobase(s); Mb; Megabase(s); PBS; V; Variable

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GERM LINE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; DNA; GENOMIC LIBRARY; GERM-LINE MUTATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RABBITS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 1842839993     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2003.12.037     Document Type: Article

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