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Transfection of an immunoglobulin kappa gene into mature human B lymphocytes

L T Bich-Thuy1, C Queen

  • 1Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.

We show in this report that the transcription induced by interleukin-2 or pokeweed mitogens of the kappa MOPC 41 immunoglobulin light-chain gene transfected into primary human or murine B lymphocytes initiates from a previously unobserved start site about 26 base pairs upstream of the start site used in myeloma cell lines.

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