Selection of individual VH genes occurs at the Pro-B to Pre-B cell transition

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 187, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1835-1844

  Meng, Wenzhao ^a   Yunk, Lenka ^a   Wang, Li San ^a   Maganty, Avinash ^a   Xue, Emily ^a   Cohen, Philip L ^b   Eisenberg, Robert A ^c   Weigert, Martin G ^d,e   Mancini, Stephane J C ^f   Luning Prak, Eline T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^f CENTRE D IMMUNOLOGIE DE MARSEILLE LUMINY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; CELL DNA; BCR PROTEIN, MOUSE; BREAKPOINT CLUSTER REGION PROTEIN; DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC SELECTION; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRE B LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VH GENE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION;

ANIMALS; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICE; PRECURSOR CELLS, B-LYMPHOID; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCR; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION, IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

EID: 80051939065     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1100207     Document Type: Article

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