Article
Functional effects of a natural polymorphism in the transcriptional regulatory sequence of HLA-DQB1.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Sept 1995
Beaty J S, West K A, Nepom G T
Abstract excerpt
DNA sequence polymorphism in the genes encoding HLA class II proteins accounts for allelic diversity in antigen recognition and presentation and, thus, in the role of these cell surface glycoproteins as determinants of the scope of the T-cell repertoire. In addition, sequence polymorphism in the promoter-proximal transcriptional regulatory regions of these genes has been described, particularly for the HLA-DQB1...
Topics
- Alleles
- B-Lymphocytes
- Base Sequence
- Cells, Cultured
- Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase
- Fibroblasts
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Genes, Reporter
- HLA-DQ Antigens
- HLA-DQ beta-Chains
- Heterozygote
