Article
Hypermutation generating the sheep immunoglobulin repertoire is an antigen-independent process.
Cell - 13 Jan 1995
Reynaud C A, Garcia C, Hein W R, Weill J C
Abstract excerpt
Somatic hypermutation of light chain V genes during development of B cells in sheep ileal Peyer's patches was studied in three experimental conditions: in sterile fragments of the ileum surgically isolated from the gut during fetal life, in germ-free sheep, and in animals thymectomized during early fetal life. The somatic mutation pattern was found identical to control tissues in all three experiments. The same...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
