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Clonal selection and learning in the antibody system.

Nature - 27 Jun 1996

Rajewsky K

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Each antibody-producing B cell makes antibodies of unique specificity, reflecting a series of ordered gene rearrangements which must be successfully performed if the cell is to survive. A second selection process occurs during immune responses in which a new antibody repertoire is generated through somatic hypermutation. Here only mutants binding antigen with high affinity survive to become memory cells. Cells...

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PMID: 8657279
DOI: 10.1038/381751a0

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