Heavy chain-only antibodies are spontaneously produced in light chain-deficient mice

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 204, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 3271-3283

  Zou, Xiangang ^a   Osborn, Michael J ^a   Bolland, Daniel J ^a   Smith, Jennifer A ^a   Corcos, Daniel ^a   Hamon, Maureen ^a   Oxley, David ^a   Hutchings, Amanda ^a   Morgan, Geoff ^a   Santos, Fatima ^a   Kilshaw, Peter J ^a   Taussig, Michael J ^a   Corcoran, Anne E ^a   Brüggemann, Marianne ^a  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; CHAPERONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; EXON; HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; LIGHT CHAIN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; DNA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 37549052817     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 00221007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20071155     Document Type: Article

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