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Antibody diversity: a link between switching and hypermutation.
Current biology : CB - 2 Nov 2000
Lieber M
Abstract excerpt
Recent work indicates that mutations in a cytidine deaminase homologue ablate both immunoglobulin class switch recombination and somatic hypermutation. These findings now explain cases of autosomal hyper-IgM syndrome and reveal that critical components for key functions of B cells require RNA editing.
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