Rearrangement and Expression of Immunoglobulin Light Chain Genes Can Precede Heavy Chain Expression during Normal B Cell Development in Mice
In mouse mutants incapable of expressing μ chains, VκJκ joints are detected in the CD43+ B cell progenitors. In agreement with these earlier results, we show by a molecular single cell analysis that 4–7% of CD43+ B cell progenitors in wild-type mice rearrange immunoglobulin (Ig)κ genes before the as...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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The Rockefeller University Press
1999
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1887695/ |