Productive coupling of accessible Vβ14 segments and DJβ complexes determines the frequency of Vβ14 rearrangement

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 180, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2339-2346

  Ranganath, Sheila ^a   Carpenter, Andrea C ^b   Gleason, Megan ^a   Shaw, Albert C ^a,c   Bassing, Craig H ^b,d   Alt, Frederick W ^a,e  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^e BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; GERMLINE MICRONUCLEUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE C MYC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; VDJ EXON; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CHROMOSOME; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOMES; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENES, REPORTER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN JOINING REGION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 42149120176     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.180.4.2339     Document Type: Article

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