Stimulation of murine B lymphocytes induces a DNA exonuclease whose activity on switch-μ DNA is specifically inhibited by other germ-line switch region RNAs1

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 160, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 3337-3341

  Müller, Jürgen R ^a,b   Marcu, Kenneth B ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; GENE LOCATION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPLEEN CELL;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; ENZYME INDUCTION; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN MU-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN SWITCH REGION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 2642630717     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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