NUCLEAR TRANSCRIPTS OF MOUSE HEAVY-CHAIN IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENES CONTAIN ONLY THE EXPRESSED CLASS OF C-REGION SEQUENCES

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作者
MARCU, KB [1 ]
SCHIBLER, U [1 ]
PERRY, RP [1 ]
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[1] INST CANC RES,FOX CHASE CTR,PHILADELPHIA,PA 19111
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10.1126/science.109919
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
In plasmacytoma cells producing IgG, IgA, or IgM immunoglobulin heavy chains, the large precursors of the heavy chain messenger RNA's contain nucleotide sequences that specify only the expressed class of constant region. This indicates that the switch from one class of heavy chain to another during B cell ontogeny does not occur by altered processing of a complex gene transcript. Copyright © 1979 AAAS.
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