Antisense transcripts from immunoglobulin heavy-chain locus V(D)J and switch regions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3843-3848

  Perlot, Thomas ^a,b   Li, Gang ^a   Alt, Frederick W ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Activation induced cytosine deaminase; Bidirectional transcription; Class switch recombination; Somatic hypermutation

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOSINE DEAMINASE; CYTOSINE DERIVATIVE; DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAMINATION; DNA STRAND; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VDJ EXON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; INTRONS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VDJ EXONS;

EID: 41649094641     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0712291105     Document Type: Article

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