Shifts in targeting of class switch recombination sites in mice that lack μ switch region tandem repeats or Msh2

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 201, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1885-1890

  Min, Irene M ^a   Rothlein, Lisa R ^a   Schrader, Carol E ^b   Stavnezer, Janet ^b   Selsing, Erik ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PROTEIN MSH2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYBRIDOMA; MISMATCH REPAIR; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION; TANDEM REPEAT; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN SWITCH REGION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTS HOMOLOG 2 PROTEIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 22344440679     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20042491     Document Type: Article

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