Article
Studying the replication history of human B lymphocytes by real-time quantitative (RQ)-PCR.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2013
van Zelm Menno C, Berkowska Magdalena A, van Dongen Jacques J M
Abstract excerpt
The cells of the adaptive immune system, B and T lymphocytes, each generate a unique antigen receptor through V(D)J recombination of their immunoglobulin (Ig) and T cell receptor (TCR) loci, respectively. Such rearrangements join coding elements to form a coding joint and delete the intervening DNA as circular excision products containing the signal joint. These excision circles are stable structures that cannot...
Topics
- Alleles
- B-Lymphocytes
- Cell Proliferation
- Cell Separation
- DNA
- Humans
- Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Taq Polymerase
