Onset of immune senescence defined by unbiased pyrosequencing of human immunoglobulin mRNA repertoires.

The immune system protects us from foreign substances or pathogens by generating specific antibodies. The variety of immunoglobulin (Ig) paratopes for antigen recognition is a result of the V(D)J rearrangement mechanism, while a fast and efficient immune response is mediated by specific immunoglobul...

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Main Authors: Florian Rubelt, Volker Sievert, Florian Knaust, Christian Diener, Theam Soon Lim, Karl Skriner, Edda Klipp, Richard Reinhardt, Hans Lehrach, Zoltán Konthur
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3511497?pdf=render

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