Regulation of repertoire development through genetic control of D H reading frame preference

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 181, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 8416-8424

  Zemlin, Michael ^a,b   Schelonka, Robert L ^b   Ippolito, Gregory C ^b   Zemlin, Cosima ^a   Zhuang, Yingxin ^b   Gartland, G Larry ^b   Nitschke, Lars ^c   Pelkonen, Jukka ^d   Rajewsky, Klaus ^e   Schroeder Jr , Harry W ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; TYROSINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY COMBINING SITE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE MUTANT; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; B-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; READING FRAMES;

EID: 58849143882     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.181.12.8416     Document Type: Article

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