Antigen-receptor genes of the agnathan lamprey are assembled by a process involving copy choice

Nature Immunology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 206-213

  Nagawa, Fumikiyo ^a   Kishishita, Natsuko ^a   Shimizu, Kazumichi ^a   Hirose, Satoshi ^a   Miyoshi, Masato ^a   Nezu, Junnya ^a   Nishimura, Toshinobu ^a   Nishizumi, Hirofumi ^a   Takahashi, Yoshimasa ^b   Hashimoto, Shu Ichi ^b   Takeuchi, Masaki ^a   Miyajima, Atsushi ^a   Takemori, Toshitada ^b   Otsuka, Anthony J ^c   Sakano, Hitoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; LEUCINE; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERM LINE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; LAMPREY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; LAMPREYS; LYMPHOCYTES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 33846481302     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni1419     Document Type: Article

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