The mouse antibody heavy chain repertoire is germline-focused and highly variable between inbred strains

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1676, 2015, Pages

  Collins, Andrew M ^a   Wang, Yan ^a   Roskin, Krishna M ^b   Marquis, Christopher P ^a   Jackson, Katherine J L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

BALB c; C57BL 6; IGHD; IGHJ; IGHV; Immunoglobulin repertoire

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; GERM CELL; PROTEIN; RODENT; SUBSPECIES;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MOUSE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84937702280     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0236     Document Type: Article

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