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Epstein-Barr virus infection in vitro can rescue germinal center B cells with inactivated immunoglobulin genes.
Blood - 15 Dec 2005
Chaganti Sridhar, Bell Andrew I, Pastor Noelia Begue, Milner Anne E, Drayson Mark, Gordon John, Rickinson Alan B
Abstract excerpt
Immunoglobulin genotyping of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-positive posttransplantation lymphoproliferative disease has suggested that such lesions often arise from atypical post-germinal center B cells, in some cases carrying functionally inactivated immunoglobulin genes. To investigate whether EBV can rescue cells that are failed products of the somatic hypermutation process occurring in germinal centers (GCs), we...
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