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DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 30, Issue 1-2, Pages 137-153Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2005.06.017
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES [Z01AI000226] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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The antibody repertoire of rabbits has interested immunologists for decades, in part because of the ease with which large quantities of high affinity antibodies can be obtained in serum, and in part because of the presence of genetic variants, allotypes, within V-H, CH and CL regions. Studies of these allotypes led to the initial descriptions of allelic exclusion, and neonatal suppression of serum Ig production (allotype suppression), and were instrumental in demonstrating that V and C regions are encoded by separate genes and are usually expressed in cis. The immune system of rabbit continues to be of interest primarily because of the use of both gene conversion and somatic hypermutation to diversify rearranged heavy and light chain genes and the role that gut-associated lymphoid tissues (GALT) and intestinal flora play in developing the primary (preimmune) antibody repertoire. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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