Sense transcription through the S region is essential for immunoglobulin class switch recombination

EMBO Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1608-1620

  Haddad, Dania ^a   Oruc, Zéliha ^a,b   Puget, Nadine ^a   Laviolette Malirat, Nathalie ^a   Philippe, Magali ^a   Carrion, Claire ^b   Le Bert, Marc ^c   Khamlichi, Ahmed Amine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

^c Laboratoire d'Immunologie et Embryologie Moleculaires Orleans   (France)

Author keywords

AID targeting; B cell; class switching; germ line transcription

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN D ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE CASSETTE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; DNA, ANTISENSE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN SWITCH REGION; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MICE; POLYADENYLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79955009382     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2011.56     Document Type: Article

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