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The murine T-cell receptor uses a limited repertoire of expressed V beta gene segments.
Nature - 1 Jan 2000
Barth R K, Kim B S, Lan N C, Hunkapiller T, Sobieck N, Winoto A, Gershenfeld H, Okada C, Hansburg D, Weissman I L
Abstract excerpt
Only 10 different V beta gene segments were found when the sequences of 15 variable (V beta) genes of the mouse T-cell receptor were examined. From this analysis we calculate that the total number of expressed V beta gene segments may be 21 or fewer, which makes the expressed germline V beta repertoire much smaller than that of immunoglobulin heavy-chain or light-chain genes. We suggest that beta-chain somatic...
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