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Affiliation to mature B cell repertoire and positive selection can be separated in two distinct processes.
International immunology - 1 Mar 2000
Hachemi-Rachedi S, Drapier A M, Cazenave P A, Sanchez P
Abstract excerpt
Using an 'oligoclonal' model, we have previously shown that mice transgenic for a mu chain (H3) and deficient for kappa chain expression display a mature B cell repertoire largely dominated by the H3/lambda1 pair, while the four H3/lambda available combinations can be observed in the immature B cell compartment. This led us to propose the existence of a positive selection process. To test this hypothesis, we have...
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