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S region transcription per se promotes basal IgE class switch recombination but additional factors regulate the efficiency of the process.
The EMBO journal - 1 Feb 1994
Bottaro A, Lansford R, Xu L, Zhang J, Rothman P, Alt F W
Abstract excerpt
Stimulation of B lymphocytes with a combination of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and interleukin-4 (IL-4) induces germline transcription of and subsequent switching to the epsilon heavy chain constant region (C epsilon) gene. Mature germline C epsilon transcripts contain a non-coding exon (I epsilon exon) spliced to the C epsilon exons. To distinguish between the potential roles of germline transcription and those of...
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