Expansion of the preimmune antibody repertoire by junctional diversity in Bos taurus.

Cattle have a limited range of immunoglobulin genes which are further diversified by antigen independent somatic hypermutation in fetuses. Junctional diversity generated during somatic recombination contributes to antibody diversity but its relative significance has not been comprehensively studied....

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Main Authors: Jenni Liljavirta, Mikael Niku, Tiina Pessa-Morikawa, Anna Ekman, Antti Iivanainen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4057420?pdf=render