Transitional B cells in early human B cell development - time to revisit the paradigm?

The B cell repertoire is generated in the adult bone marrow by an ordered series of gene rearrangement processes that result in massive diversity of immunoglobulin (Ig) genes, and consequently an equally large number of potential specificities for antigen. As the process is essentially random, then...

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Main Authors: Victoria G Martin, Yu-Chang Bryan Wu, Catherine L. Townsend, Grace HC Lu, Joselli Silva O'Hare, Alexander Mozeika, Anthonius CC Coolen, David Kipling, Franca Fraternali, Deborah K Dunn-Walters
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fimmu.2016.00546/full