Global analysis of B cell selection using an immunoglobulin light chain-mediated model of autoreactivity.

J. Exp. Med.     Sarah F Andrews , Qingzhao Zhang , Samuel Lim , Lie Li , Jane-Hwei Lee , Nai-Ying Zheng , Min Huang , William M Taylor , A Darise Farris , Dongyao Ni , Wenzhao Meng , Eline T Luning Prak , Patrick C Wilson

Biallelic, ubiquitous transcription from the distal germline Ig{kappa} locus promoter during B cell development.

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.     Rupesh H Amin , Dragana Cado , Hector Nolla , Dan Huang , Susan A Shinton , Yan Zhou , Richard R Hardy , Mark S Schlissel

TLR4, TLR9 and MyD88 are not required for the positive selection of autoreactive B cells into the primary repertoire.

Eur. J. Immunol.     Karlee Silver , Helen Ferry , Tanya Crockford , Richard J Cornall

E2A and IRF-4/Pip promote chromatin modification and transcription of the immunoglobulin kappa locus in pre-B cells.

Mol. Cell. Biol.     Adam S Lazorchak , Mark S Schlissel , Yuan Zhuang

IMGT/GENE-DB: a comprehensive database for human and mouse immunoglobulin and T cell receptor genes.

Nucleic Acids Res     Véronique Giudicelli , Denys Chaume , Marie-Paule Lefranc

Variegated transcriptional activation of the immunoglobulin kappa locus in pre-b cells contributes to the allelic exclusion of light-chain expression.

Cell     Hong-Erh Liang , Lih-Yun Hsu , Dragana Cado , Mark S Schlissel

Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences.

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.     Robert L Strausberg , Elise A Feingold , Lynette H Grouse , Jeffery G Derge , Richard D Klausner , Francis S Collins , Lukas Wagner , Carolyn M Shenmen , Gregory D Schuler , Stephen F Altschul , Barry Zeeberg , Kenneth H Buetow , Carl F Schaefer , Narayan K Bhat , Ralph F Hopkins , Heather Jordan , Troy Moore , Steve I Max , Jun Wang , Florence Hsieh , Luda Diatchenko , Kate Marusina , Andrew A Farmer , Gerald M Rubin , Ling Hong , Mark Stapleton , M Bento Soares , Maria F Bonaldo , Tom L Casavant , Todd E Scheetz , Michael J Brownstein , Ted B Usdin , Shiraki Toshiyuki , Piero Carninci , Christa Prange , Sam S Raha , Naomi A Loquellano , Garrick J Peters , Rick D Abramson , Sara J Mullahy , Stephanie A Bosak , Paul J McEwan , Kevin J McKernan , Joel A Malek , Preethi H Gunaratne , Stephen Richards , Kim C Worley , Sarah Hale , Angela M Garcia , Laura J Gay , Stephen W Hulyk , Debbie K Villalon , Donna M Muzny , Erica J Sodergren , Xiuhua Lu , Richard A Gibbs , Jessica Fahey , Erin Helton , Mark Ketteman , Anuradha Madan , Stephanie Rodrigues , Amy Sanchez , Michelle Whiting , Anup Madan , Alice C Young , Yuriy Shevchenko , Gerard G Bouffard , Robert W Blakesley , Jeffrey W Touchman , Eric D Green , Mark C Dickson , Alex C Rodriguez , Jane Grimwood , Jeremy Schmutz , Richard M Myers , Yaron S N Butterfield , Martin I Krzywinski , Ursula Skalska , Duane E Smailus , Angelique Schnerch , Jacqueline E Schein , Steven J M Jones , Marco A Marra , Mammalian Gene Collection Program Team

The efficiency of B cell receptor (BCR) editing is dependent on BCR light chain rearrangement status.

Eur. J. Immunol.     Nurit Yachimovich , Gustavo Mostoslavsky , Yuval Yarkoni , Inna Verbovetski , Dan Eilat

Contribution of receptor editing to the antibody repertoire.

Science     R Casellas , T A Shih , M Kleinewietfeld , J Rakonjac , D Nemazee , K Rajewsky , M C Nussenzweig

The 3' part of the immunoglobulin kappa locus of the mouse.

Eur. J. Immunol.     T Kirschbaum , S Pourrajabi , I Zocher , J Schwendinger , V Heim , F Röschenthaler , V Kirschbaum , H G Zachau