An evolutionary view of the mechanism for immune and genome diversity

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 188, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3559-3566

  Kato, Lucia ^a   Stanlie, Andre ^a   Begum, Nasim A ^a   Kobayashi, Maki ^a   Aida, Masatoshi ^a   Honjo, Tasuku ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION INDUCED CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ANURA; CATALYSIS; CLASS SWITCH RECOMBINATION; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; DNA CLEAVAGE; EVOLUTION; FISH; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HOST; IMMUNE DIVERSITY; IMMUNITY; MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; VDJ RECOMBINATION;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HISTONES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; T-LYMPHOCYTES; V(D)J RECOMBINATION;

EID: 84860346892     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1102397     Document Type: Review

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