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Tracking germinal center B cells expressing germ-line immunoglobulin gamma1 transcripts by conditional gene targeting.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 9 May 2006
Casola Stefano, Cattoretti Giorgio, Uyttersprot Nathalie, Koralov Sergei B, Seagal Jane, Segal Jane, Hao Zhenyue, Waisman Ari, Egert Angela, Ghitza Dvora, Rajewsky Klaus
Abstract excerpt
Germinal centers (GCs) represent the main sites for the generation of high-affinity, class-switched antibodies during T cell-dependent antibody responses. To study gene function specifically in GC B cells, we generated Cgamma1-cre mice in which the expression of Cre recombinase is induced by transcription of the Ig gamma1 constant region gene segment (Cgamma1). In these mice, Cre-mediated recombination at the...
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