Mutational Analysis of Terminal Deoxynucleotidyltransferase-Mediated N-Nucleotide Addition in V(D)J Recombination

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 172, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 5478-5488

  Repasky, Jamie A E ^a   Corbett, Elizabeth ^a   Boboila, Cristian ^a   Schatz, David G ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; DNA POLYMERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN J CHAIN; N NUCLEOTIDE; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN; RAG PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT IMMUNOGLOBULIN V(D)J CHAIN; TDT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN RECEPTOR GENE; ARTICLE; BRCA 1 C TERMINAL DOMAIN; CHO CELL; CHROMOSOMAL V(D)J RECOMBINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; GENE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HELIX HAIRPIN HELIX DOMAIN; IN VIVO STUDY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STRUCTURAL MOTIF; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 2142768901     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.9.5478     Document Type: Article

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