The 5' hypermutation boundary of χ chains is independent of local and neighbouring sequences and related to the distance from the initiation of transcription

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 3115-3120

  Rada, Cristina ^a   Yélamos, José ^a   Dean, Wendy ^b   Milstein, César ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

5' boundary; Immunoglobulin hypermutation; Transcription coupled DNA repair

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 2642652230     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830271206     Document Type: Article

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