Article
Somatic hypermutation in normal and transformed human B cells.
Immunological reviews - 1 Apr 1998
Klein U, Goossens T, Fischer M, Kanzler H, Braeuninger A, Rajewsky K, Küppers R
Abstract excerpt
In the human, most IgM+IgD+ as well as CD5+ peripheral blood B cells express unmutated V genes and thus can be assigned to a pre-germinal centre (GC) stage of development. The memory B-cell compartment generated in the GC reaction and characterized by cells bearing somatically mutated V-region ge...
Topics
- Animals
- Antibody Diversity
- B-Lymphocytes
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
- Genes, Immunoglobulin
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin Variable Region
- Lymphocyte Subsets
- Lymphoma, B-Cell
- Mutation
- Point Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
