Highly diverse TCRα chain repertoire of pre-immune CD8 + T cells reveals new insights in gene recombination

EMBO Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1666-1678

  Genolet, Raphael ^a   Stevenson, Brian J ^a,b   Farinelli, Laurent ^c   Østerås, Magne ^c   Luescher, Immanuel F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^c FASTERIS SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CD8; illumina; repertoire; sequencing; TCR

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IMMUNITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; GENE REARRANGEMENT, ALPHA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR ALPHA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84859425494     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2012.48     Document Type: Article

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