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VH replacement rescues progenitor B cells with two nonproductive VDJ alleles.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 15 Nov 2006
Lutz Johannes, Müller Werner, Jäck Hans-Martin
Abstract excerpt
Inaccurate VDJ rearrangements generate a large number of progenitor (pro)-B cells with two nonproductive IgH alleles. Such cells lack essential survival signals mediated by surface IgM heavy chain (muH chain) expression and are normally eliminated. However, secondary rearrangements of upstream VH gene segments into assembled VDJ exons have been described in mice transgenic for productive muH chains, a process...
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