Deciphering the importance of the palindromic architecture of the immunoglobulin heavy-chain 3’ regulatory region

The IgH3’ regulatory region contains an evolutionarily conserved palindromic sequence flanking important enhancer elements. Here the authors show that the palindrome is required for generating antibody diversity.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alexis Saintamand, Christelle Vincent-Fabert, Armand Garot, Pauline Rouaud, Zeliha Oruc, Virginie Magnone, Michel Cogné, Yves Denizot
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10730