Rearrangement of immunoglobulin genes in chicken B cell development |
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Authors: | MJ Ratcliffe KA Jacobsen |
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Affiliation: | Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. |
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Abstract: | Immunoglobulin gene rearrangement in the chicken has evolved not to generate antibody diversity per se but to generate an immunoglobulin variable region which can be diversified by subsequent somatic gene conversion events. While the molecular mechanism of V(D)J recombination in chickens cannot be distinguished from that seen in other species, the way in which this recombination is regulated during chicken B lymphocyte development does differ from the more widely known models of gene rearrangement in humans and rodents. In this review we focus on these differences, relating V(D)J recombination to the progression of chicken B cell development in the bursa of Fabricius. |
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