Rearrangement of immunoglobulin genes in chicken B cell development.

doi:10.1006/smim.1994.1023

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Rearrangement of immunoglobulin genes in chicken B cell development.

Seminars in immunology - 1 Jun 1994

Ratcliffe M J, Jacobsen K A

Abstract excerpt

Immunoglobulin gene rearrangement in the chicken has evolved not to generate antibody diversity per se but to generate an immunoglobulin variable region which can be diversified by subsequent somatic gene conversion events. While the molecular mechanism of V(D)J recombination in chickens cannot b...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
B-Lymphocytes
Base Sequence
Chickens
DNA-Binding Proteins
Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte
Homeodomain Proteins
Immune System
Immunoglobulins
Molecular Sequence Data
Proteins

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