Making V(D)J rearrangement visible: Quantification of recombination efficiency in real time at the single cell level

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 315, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 133-143

  Zheng, Xiao ^a   Schwarz, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gene rearrangement; Human; Immunodeficiency disease

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RAG1 PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ARTEMIA; ARTICLE; CELL LEVEL; CELL LINE; CELL MUTANT; COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC TECHNIQUES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 33748940222     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2006.07.012     Document Type: Article

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