Reflections on the state of play in somatic hypermutation

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2723-2726

  Steele, Edward J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

A to I RNA editing; A:T targeted phase II SHM; DNA polymerase ; Mechanism somatic hypermutation; Reverse transcriptase model

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; CYSTEINE; CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHATASE; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE ETA; GLYCINE; THREONINE;

BASE PAIRING; DNA STRAND; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; LETTER; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION;

BASE COMPOSITION; CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; DEAMINATION; DNA; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; HUMANS; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION, IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

EID: 41949142835     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2008.02.002     Document Type: Letter

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