Enhancement of antibody class-switch recombination by the cumulative activity of four separate elements

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 187, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 4733-4743

  Dunnick, Wesley A ^a   Shi, Jian ^a   Zerbato, Jennifer M ^a   Fontaine, Clinton A ^a   Collins, John T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MESSENGER RNA;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; GENE; GENE CH; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; H CHAIN GENE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; CELLS, CULTURED; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EXONS; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 80555126080     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1101808     Document Type: Article

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