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Large-scale chromatin remodeling at the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus: a paradigm for multigene regulation.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 2009
Bolland Daniel J, Wood Andrew L, Corcoran Anne E
Abstract excerpt
V(D)J recombination in lymphocytes is the cutting and pasting together of antigen receptor genes in cis to generate the enormous variety of coding sequences required to produce diverse antigen receptor proteins. It is the key role of the adaptive immune response, which must potentially combat millions of different foreign antigens. Most antigen receptor loci have evolved to be extremely large and contain multiple...
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