Recirculating bone marrow B cells in C57BL/6 mice are more tolerant of highly hydrophobic and highly charged CDR-H3s than those in BALB/c mice

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 629-640

  Khass, Mohamed ^a   Buckley, Kevin ^b   Kapoor, Pratibha ^c   Schelonka, Robert L ^d   Watkins, Leticia S ^c   Zhuang, Yingxin ^c   Schroeder Jr , Harry W ^a,c  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibodies; B cells; Repertoire development; Rodent

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ASPARAGINE; HISTIDINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY COMBINING SITE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CDR H3; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; HYDROPHOBICITY; LYMPHOCYTE RECIRCULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VH81X GENE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; B-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CODON; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; READING FRAMES;

EID: 84875000922     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: 15214141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eji.201242936     Document Type: Article

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