Article
Immunoglobulin gene conversion and hypermutation assay by FACs.
Sub-cellular biochemistry - 1 Jan 2006
Arakawa Hiroshi
Abstract excerpt
Immunoglobulin (Ig) gene conversion and hypermutation rates can be quantified by FACS. The spontaneous DT40 variant, C118, and C118-derived DT40 mutants can be used to analyze gene conversion phenotype. The C118 has a frameshift in its rearranged V segment. When this frameshift mutation is repaired by pseudogene-templated gene conversion, sIgM(-) DT40 reverts to sIgM (+) (Ig reversion assay). The sIgM (+)...
Topics
- Animals
- B-Lymphocytes
- Cell Line
- Cell Separation
- Chickens
- Flow Cytometry
- Gene Conversion
- Genes, Immunoglobulin
- Mutation
