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Immunoglobulin locus silencing and allelic exclusion.
Seminars in immunology - 1 Apr 2005
Corcoran Anne E
Abstract excerpt
Lymphocytes are characterised by monoclonal expression of antigen receptors. This is achieved by silencing of one of two homologous antigen receptor alleles, a process known as allelic exclusion. This process is regulated both before and after V(D)J recombination, by a variety of mechanisms. These include nuclear localisation, changes in chromatin structure and histone modifications, non-coding sense and...
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