Exonuclease activity and P nucleotide addition in the generation of the expressed immunoglobulin repertoire

BMC Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Jackson, Katherine J L ^a   Gaeta, Bruno ^a   Sewell, William ^a,b   Collins, Andrew M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXONUCLEASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; NUCLEOTIDE;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE INSERTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RANDOMIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; METABOLISM;

BASE COMPOSITION; DATABASES, GENETIC; EXONUCLEASES; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; NUCLEOTIDES;

EID: 26444485703     PISSN: 14712172     EISSN: 14712172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2172-5-19     Document Type: Article

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