Powered by pairing: The surrogate light chain amplifies immunoglobulin heavy chain signaling and pre-selects the antibody repertoire

Seminars in Immunology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 44-55

  Vettermann, Christian ^a   Herrmann, Kai ^a   Jäck, Hans Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

B cell development; Idiotype; Lambda 5; Pre B cell receptor; VpreB

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; GLUCOSE REGULATED PROTEIN 78; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

B LYMPHOCYTE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURFACE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

ANIMALS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 32544435585     PISSN: 10445323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smim.2006.01.001     Document Type: Review

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