IGL@ ou locus lambda da imunoglobulina (também conhecido como IGL e IGLC6), é uma região do cromossoma 22 que contém genes para as cadeias leves lambda dos anticorpos (imunoglobulinas).
Genes
O locus lambda da imunoglobulina contém os seguintes genes:
Combriato G, Klobeck HG (1991). «V lambda and J lambda-C lambda gene segments of the human immunoglobulin lambda light chain locus are separated by 14 kb and rearrange by a deletion mechanism.». Eur. J. Immunol. 21 (6): 1513–22. PMID1904362. doi:10.1002/eji.1830210627
Hieter PA, Korsmeyer SJ, Waldmann TA, Leder P (1981). «Human immunoglobulin kappa light-chain genes are deleted or rearranged in lambda-producing B cells.». Nature. 290 (5805): 368–72. PMID6783958. doi:10.1038/290368a0
Erikson J, Martinis J, Croce CM (1982). «Assignment of the genes for human lambda immunoglobulin chains to chromosome 22.». Nature. 294 (5837): 173–5. PMID6795508. doi:10.1038/294173a0
Frippiat JP, Williams SC, Tomlinson IM, et al. (1995). «Organization of the human immunoglobulin lambda light-chain locus on chromosome 22q11.2.». Hum. Mol. Genet. 4 (6): 983–91. PMID7655473. doi:10.1093/hmg/4.6.983
Williams SC, Frippiat JP, Tomlinson IM, et al. (1997). «Sequence and evolution of the human germline V lambda repertoire.». J. Mol. Biol. 264 (2): 220–32. PMID8951372. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1996.0636
Kawasaki K, Minoshima S, Nakato E, et al. (1997). «One-megabase sequence analysis of the human immunoglobulin lambda gene locus.». Genome Res. 7 (3): 250–61. PMID9074928. doi:10.1101/gr.7.3.250
Lefranc MP (2002). «Nomenclature of the human immunoglobulin lambda (IGL) genes.». Exp. Clin. Immunogenet. 18 (4): 242–54. PMID11872955. doi:10.1159/000049203
Boursier L, Su W, Spencer J (2003). «Imprint of somatic hypermutation differs in human immunoglobulin heavy and lambda chain variable gene segments.». Mol. Immunol. 39 (16): 1025–34. PMID12749909. doi:10.1016/S0161-5890(03)00033-6