Heavy-chain-only antibody expression and B-cell development in the mouse

Critical Reviews in Immunology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 377-390

  Brüggemann, Marianne ^a   Smith, Jennifer A ^a   Osborn, Michael J ^a   Corcos, Daniel ^a   Zou, Xiangang ^a   Nguyen, Viet Khong ^b   Muyldermans, Serge ^b  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

DNA rearrangement; Epitope recognition; Heavy Chain Disease; Heavy chain Ig; Lymphocyte differentiation; VHH genes

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY STRUCTURE; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTIODACTYLA; B LYMPHOCYTE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; HEAVY CHAIN DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 33751207703     PISSN: 10408401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/critrevimmunol.v26.i5.10     Document Type: Review

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