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It has been said that cells do not make proteins for irrelevant reasons. This means that every protein has a specific function. If we fail to understand that function the flaw is in human nature, not in Nature itself. A corollary of this logic is that if a unique kind of cell produces a unique protein, then that unique protein must be related to a special function of the unique class of cells. Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) is such a protein, existing only in a limited population of lymphoid cells. The purpose of this meeting is to consider the phenomenology associated with the occurrence of this protein, and hopefully deduce Nature’s reason for producing it.
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Bollum, F.J. (1982). Terminal Transferase: Past to Present. In: Bertazzoni, U., Bollum, F.J. (eds) Terminal Transferase in Immunobiology and Leukemia. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 145. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8929-3_1
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