VH replacement rescues progenitor B cells with two nonproductive VDJ alleles

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 177, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 7007-7014

  Lutz, Johannes ^a   Müller, Werner ^b   Jäck, Hans Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPLEEN; STEM CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; BASE SEQUENCE; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SPLEEN; STEM CELLS;

EID: 33750836920     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.177.10.7007     Document Type: Article

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