IgG4 and IgE transcripts in childhood allergic asthma reflect divergent antigen-driven selection

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 193, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 5801-5808

  Rogosch, Tobias ^a   Kerzel, Sebastian ^b   Dey, Friederike ^a   Wagner, Johanna Josophina ^a   Zhang, Zhixin ^c   Maier, Rolf F ^a   Zemlin, Michael ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; RNA; ALLERGEN; ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN J CHAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL SELECTION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOMATIC MUTATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ASTHMA; B LYMPHOCYTE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; PHYLOGENY;

ADOLESCENT; ALLERGENS; ANTIGENS; ASTHMA; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN J-CHAINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; PHYLOGENY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84916912404     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1401409     Document Type: Article

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