Insights into the B cell specific process of immunoglobulin class switch recombination

Immunology Letters

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 97-103

  Kracker, Sven ^a,b   Durandy, Anne ^a,b  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Activation induced cytidine deaminase; AID regulation; B cell maturation; Chromatin modification; Class switch recombination; DNA repair

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION INDUCED CYTIDINE DEAMINASE;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CELL MATURATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME REGULATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCH RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; DNA REPAIR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HALF-LIFE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ISOTYPES; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MAMMALS; MICE; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL;

EID: 79959550548     PISSN: 01652478     EISSN: 18790542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imlet.2011.02.004     Document Type: Review

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