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Biallelic, ubiquitous transcription from the distal germline Ig{kappa} locus promoter during B cell development.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 13 Jan 2009
Amin Rupesh H, Cado Dragana, Nolla Hector, Huang Dan, Shinton Susan A, Zhou Yan, Hardy Richard R, Schlissel Mark S
Abstract excerpt
Allelic exclusion of Ig gene expression is necessary to limit the number of functional receptors to one per B cell. The mechanism underlying allelic exclusion is unknown. Because germline transcription of Ig and TCR loci is tightly correlated with rearrangement, we created two novel knock-in mice that report transcriptional activity of the Jkappa germline promoters in the Igkappa locus. Analysis of these mice...
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