The Strength of an Ig Switch Region Is Determined by Its Ability to Drive R Loop Formation and Its Number of WGCW Sites

Cell Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 557-569

  Zhang, Zheng Z ^a,b,c   Pannunzio, Nicholas R ^a,b,c   Han, Li ^d   Hsieh, Chih Lin ^a,b,c   Yu, Kefei ^d   Lieber, Michael R ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION INDUCED CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; GUANINE; DEAMINASE; DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CLASS SWITCH RECOMBINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R LOOP; WGCW SITE; ANIMAL; CONFORMATION; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; METABOLISM; TUMOR CELL LINE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; EXON; GENE SWITCHING; GENOMIC INSTABILITY;

MURINAE;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GC RICH SEQUENCE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN SWITCH REGION; MICE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 84904814014     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.06.021     Document Type: Article

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