Allelic exclusion of immunoglobulin genes: Models and mechanisms

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 22-42

  Vettermann, Christian ^a   Schlissel, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

asynchronous replication; B lymphocytes; chromatin accessibility; germline transcription; probabilistic activation; V(D)J recombination

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; RECOMBINASE;

ALLELIC EXCLUSION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; B LYMPHOCYTE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GAMMA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA-CHAINS; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL;

EID: 77955878464     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: 1600065X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.2010.00935.x     Document Type: Review

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