Akira Kudo

Surrogate light chain in B cell development.

A. Rolink, H. Karasuyama, F. Melchers, 1993, Advances in immunology.

Long‐term proliferating early pre B cell lines and clones with the potential to develop to surface Ig‐positive, mitogen reactive B cells in vitro and in vivo.

A. Rolink, H. Karasuyama, F. Melchers, 1991, The EMBO journal.

A second gene, VpreB in the lambda 5 locus of the mouse, which appears to be selectively expressed in pre‐B lymphocytes.

F. Melchers, A. Kudo, Akira Kudo, 1987, The EMBO journal.

The proteins encoded by the VpreB and lambda 5 pre-B cell-specific genes can associate with each other and with mu heavy chain

H. Karasuyama, F. Melchers, A. Kudo, 1990, The Journal of experimental medicine.