Lieber M
Department of Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA.
Curr Biol. 1996 Feb 1;6(2):134-6. doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(02)00443-8.
The recombination process that assembles antigen-receptor genes is now understood in some biochemical detail. The initial steps reflect a common theme seen in retroviral integration and prokaryotic transposition, and the later steps involve the enzymatic machinery for double-strand break DNA repair.