The multiple shark Ig H chain genes rearrange and hypermutate autonomously

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 187, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2492-2501

  Zhu, Catherine ^a   Feng, Wendy ^a   Weedon, Jeremy ^a   Hua, Pauline ^a   Stefanov, Dimitre ^a   Ohta, Yuko ^b   Flajnik, Martin F ^b   Hsu, Ellen ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2B; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MAPPING; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC REGULATION; IGH GENE; IGM GENE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHARK; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL SEPARATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHARKS; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION, IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

EID: 80052662001     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1101671     Document Type: Article

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