Susumu Tonegawa is a Japanese molecular biologist who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of "the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity". Susumu Tonegawa is also famous for his important contributions on neuroscience, who explored the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying learning and memory. In this article, the life and research on Susumu Tonegawa was introduced.
GUO Xiao-Qiang
. Discoverer of genetic principle for antibody diversity——Susumu Tonegawa[J]. Hereditas(Beijing), 2012
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DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1005.2012.01501
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[3] Hozumi N, Tonegawa S. Evidence for somatic rearrangement of immunoglobulin genes coding for variable and constant regions. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 1976, 73(10): 3628-3632.
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[12] Tsien JZ, Huerta PT, Tonegawa S. The essential role of hippocampal CA1 NMDA receptor-dependent synaptic plasticity in spatial memory. Cell, 1996, 87(7): 1327-1338.
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