Systematic characterization and comparative analysis of the rabbit immunoglobulin repertoire.

Rabbits have been used extensively as a model system for the elucidation of the mechanism of immunoglobulin diversification and for the production of antibodies. We employed Next Generation Sequencing to analyze Ig germline V and J gene usage, CDR3 length and amino acid composition, and gene convers...

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Main Authors: Jason J Lavinder, Kam Hon Hoi, Sai T Reddy, Yariv Wine, George Georgiou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4076286?pdf=render