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pre-B-I cell

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A pre-B-I cell is a precursor B cell that expresses CD34 and surrogate immunoglobulin light chain (VpreB , Lambda 5 (mouse)/14.1 (human)) on the cell surface, and TdT, Rag1,and Rag2 intracellularly. Cell type carries a D-JH DNA rearrangement, and lacks expression of immunglobulin heavy chain protein. [ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/references/0000031 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16551251 GOC:tfm http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20839338 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18432934 GOC:dsd GOC:rhs http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9785673 ]

Synonyms: pre-BI cell