Organization and genomic complexity of bovine λ-light chain gene locus

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 135, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 306-313

  Pasman, Yfke ^a   Saini, Surinder S ^a,b   Smith, Elspeth ^a   Kaushik, Azad K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antibody diversity; Bovine V ; C genes; J ; Light chain

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA CHAIN;

ARTICLE; BREED DIFFERENCE; CHROMOSOME 17; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; DNA; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, LIGHT CHAIN; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA-CHAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BOS; BOVINAE;

EID: 77952552281     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2009.12.012     Document Type: Article

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