Advances in Immunology, Volume 79 (Advances in Immunology)
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: October 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780120224791
Subjects: Immunology; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Infectious Diseases; Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics; Medical / Immunology; Life Sciences - Biology - Microbiology
First sentence: During their development in the bone marrow, B cell precursors undergo sequential recombination-activating gene (RAG)-mediated rearrangements of D to J and V to DJ elements of the immunoglobulin (Ig) heavy-chain variable region (VH) and V to J elements of the Ig light-chain variable region (VL) (Tonegawa, 1983).