Multiple, conserved cryptic recombination signals in VH gene segments: Detection of cleavage products only in pro-B cells

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 204, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 3195-3208

  Davila, Marco ^a   Liu, Feifei ^a   Cowell, Lindsay G ^a   Lieberman, Anne E ^a   Heikamp, Emily ^a   Patel, Anjali ^a   Kelsoe, Garnett ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSAY; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; VH GENE;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROBABILITY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SOFTWARE;

EID: 37549037403     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 00221007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20071224     Document Type: Article

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