Article
Affinity selection and repertoire shift: paradoxes as a consequence of somatic mutation?
Immunological reviews - 1 Apr 1998
Andersson K, Wrammert J, Leanderson T
Abstract excerpt
Affinity selection of antibodies during immune responses relies on two mechanisms, one molecular that involves the targeted introduction of somatic mutations into rearranged immunoglobulin genes and one cellular that involves the clonal expansion of B cells expressing a surface immunoglobulin wit...
Topics
- Animals
- Antibody Diversity
- Antibody Specificity
- Antigen-Antibody Complex
- Genes, Immunoglobulin
- Humans
- Immunologic Memory
- Models, Genetic
- Mutation
