Biallelic, ubiquitous transcription from the distal germline Igκ locus promoter during B cell development

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

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 522-527

  Amin, Rupesh H ^a,c   Cado, Dragana ^a   Nolla, Hector ^a   Huang, Dan ^a   Shinton, Susan A ^b   Zhou, Yan ^b   Hardy, Richard R ^b   Schlissel, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Allelic exclusion; Knock in mouse

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN;

ALLELIC EXCLUSION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM LINE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRE B LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; GENE KNOCK-IN TECHNIQUES; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PRECURSOR CELLS, B-LYMPHOID; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MUS;

EID: 58849152743     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0808895106     Document Type: Article

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