Two New Isotype-Specific Switching Activities Detected for Ig Class Switching
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Two new isotype-specific switching activities detected for Ig class switching.
Ig class switch recombination (CSR) occurs by an intrachromosomal deletional process between switch (S) regions in B cells. To facilitate the study of CSR, we derived a new B cell line, 1.B4.B6, which is uniquely capable of mu --> gamma3, mu --> epsilon, and mu --> alpha, but not mu --> gamma1 CSR at its endogenous loci. The 1.B4.B6 cell line was used in combination with plasmid-based isotype-s...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Immunology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0022-1767,1550-6606
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.168.6.2835