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Induction of somatic mutation in a human B cell line in vitro.
Immunity - 1 Jan 1997
Denépoux S, Razanajaona D, Blanchard D, Meffre G, Capra J D, Banchereau J, Lebecque S
Abstract excerpt
Both the B cell-surface trigger(s) and the intracellular molecular mechanism(s) of somatic hypermutation in immunoglobulin (Ig) variable region genes remain unknown, partly because of the lack of a simple and reproducible in vitro model. Here, we show that upon surface immunoglobulin cross-linking followed by co-culture with activated cloned T cells, the Burkitt's lymphoma cell line BL2 is induced to mutate its...
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