Lymphocyte antigen receptor gene assembly: Multiple layers of regulation

Immunologic Research

Volumn 32, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 253-258

  Sleckman, Barry P ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allelic exclusion; B12 23 restriction; Lymphocyte antigen receptor genes; TCR chain gene; V(D)J recombination reaction

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ALLELIC EXCLUSION; CELL MATURATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXON; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; REVIEW;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, T-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR BETA; HUMANS; MICE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 23844528741     PISSN: 0257277X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/IR:32:1-3:253     Document Type: Review

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