The pre-B cell receptor: turning autoreactivity into self-defense

Trends in Immunology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 176-183

  Vettermann, Christian ^a,b   Jäck, Hans Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PRE B CELL RECEPTOR; RECOMBINASE; SURROGATE IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLONAL VARIATION; DNA CROSS LINKING; DNA RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRE B LYMPHOCYTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNITY; B-LYMPHOCYTES; HUMANS; PRE-B CELL RECEPTORS; RECEPTOR CROSS-TALK; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77951621604     PISSN: 14714906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2010.02.004     Document Type: Article

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