Recombination-activating gene proteins: More regulation, please

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 200, Issue , 2004, Pages 83-89

  Sadofsky, Moshe J ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; HISTIDINE; HISTONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; POLYPEPTIDE; RAG1 PROTEIN; RAG2 PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE;

ACETYLATION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; AUTOREGULATION; B LYMPHOCYTE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE; CELL MATURATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA HELIX; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE TARGETING; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; METHYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; UBIQUITINATION;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 3242886494     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-2896.2004.00164.x     Document Type: Review

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