Evidence that the long murine terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase isoform plays no role in the control of V(D)J junctional diversity

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 172, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 6764-6767

  Doyen, Noëlle ^a   Boulé, Jean Baptiste ^a,b   Rougeon, François ^a   Papanicolaou, Catherine ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; EXONUCLEASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; ISOPROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IN VIVO STUDY; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOSTABILITY;

EID: 2442651524     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.11.6764     Document Type: Article

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