Article
Ongoing diversification of the rearranged immunoglobulin light-chain gene in a bursal lymphoma cell line.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Jun 1990
Kim S, Humphries E H, Tjoelker L, Carlson L, Thompson C B
Abstract excerpt
The chicken immunoglobulin light-chain gene (IgL) encodes only a single variable gene segment capable of recombination. To generate an immune repertoire, chickens diversify this unique rearranged VL gene segment during B-cell development in the bursa of Fabricius. Sequence analysis of IgL cDNAs suggests that both gene conversion events derived from VL segment pseudogene templates (psi VL) and non-template-derived...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Cell Line
- Chickens
- Clone Cells
- DNA, Neoplasm
- Gene Conversion
- Gene Rearrangement
- Genes, Immunoglobulin
- Immunoglobulin Joining Region
