| Literature DB >> 15339659 |
Raul Mostoslavsky1, Frederick W Alt, Klaus Rajewsky.
Abstract
B lymphocytes produce diverse antibody specificities by "randomly" assembling antibody genes from germline segments. Yet, though each B lymphocyte has multiple allelic loci for the different antibody chains, each clonally derived mature B lymphocyte expresses a single species of antibody with a unique specificity via a process termed allelic exclusion. Despite some progress, the precise mechanism of allelic exclusion remains an enigma.Mesh:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15339659 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2004.08.023
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell ISSN: 0092-8674 Impact factor: 41.582