Genomic organization and evolution of immunoglobulin kappa gene enhancers and kappa deleting element in mammals

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 46, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 3171-3177

  Das, Sabyasachi ^a,c   Nikolaidis, Nikolas ^b   Nei, Masatoshi ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunoglobulin kappa light chain; Kappa deleting element (KDE); Kappa enhancer; Recombination signal sequence (RSS); Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; RAT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; GENOME; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 68949175489     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2009.05.180     Document Type: Article

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