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Alternative splicing and hypermutation of a nonproductively rearranged TCR alpha-chain in a T cell hybridoma.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 15 Jan 1999
Marshall B, Schulz R, Zhou M, Mellor A
Abstract excerpt
Like Ig genes, TCR genes are formed by somatic rearrangements of noncontiguous genomic V, J, and C regions. Unlike Ig genes, somatic hypermutation of TCR V regions is an infrequent event. We describe the occurrence of spontaneous hypermutation in a nonproductively rearranged TCR alpha-chain gene in a clonal T cell hybridoma that had lost its productively rearranged alpha-chain. The mutating hybridoma was...
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