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Class switch recombination: a friend and a foe.
Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.) - 1 Jun 2007
Edry Efrat, Melamed Doron
Abstract excerpt
The effector functions of the antibody are determined by the heavy chain constant region (CH). During CSR the primarily expressed mu constant region (Cmu) of the heavy chain is replaced with a downstream isotype Cgamma, Calpha or Cepsilon. The murine immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) locus contains eight different CH genes. Class switch recombination (CSR) involves a recombination between two different repetitive...
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