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Class switch recombination and hypermutation require activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), a potential RNA editing enzyme.
Cell - 1 Sept 2000
Muramatsu M, Kinoshita K, Fagarasan S, Yamada S, Shinkai Y, Honjo T
Abstract excerpt
Induced overexpression of AID in CH12F3-2 B lymphoma cells augmented class switching from IgM to IgA without cytokine stimulation. AID deficiency caused a complete defect in class switching and showed a hyper-IgM phenotype with enlarged germinal centers containing strongly activated B cells befor...
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