Pre-BCR signals and the control of Ig gene rearrangements

Seminars in Immunology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 31-39

  Geier, Jamie K ^a   Schlissel, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allelic exclusion; B cell development; Pre B cell receptor (pre BCR); Transcriptional regulation; V(D)J recombination

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LIGAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELIC EXCLUSION; ANTIGENICITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHOREOGRAPHY; EPIGENETICS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC CODE; HEAVY CHAIN; LIGHT CHAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 32544436849     PISSN: 10445323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smim.2005.11.001     Document Type: Review

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