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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Main Authors: Novobrantseva, Tatiana I., Martin, Verena M., Pelanda, Roberta, Müller, Werner, Rajewsky, Klaus, Ehlich, Andreas
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: The Rockefeller University Press 1999
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1887695/