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The Shape of the Lymphocyte Receptor Repertoire: Lessons from the B Cell Receptor
1 Jan 2013
Abstract excerpt
Both the B cell receptor (BCR) and the T cell receptor (TCR) repertoires are generated through essentially identical processes of V(D)J recombination, exonuclease trimming of germline genes, and the random addition of non-template encoded nucleotides. The naïve TCR repertoire is constrained by thymic selection, and TCR repertoire studies have therefore focused strongly on the diversity of MHC-binding...
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