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AID enzyme-induced hypermutation in an actively transcribed gene in fibroblasts.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 14 Jun 2002
Yoshikawa Kiyotsugu, Okazaki Il-Mi, Eto Tomonori, Kinoshita Kazuo, Muramatsu Masamichi, Nagaoka Hitoshi, Honjo Tasuku
Abstract excerpt
Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), a putative RNA-editing enzyme, is indispensable for somatic hypermutation (SHM), class switch recombination, and gene conversion of immunoglobulin genes, which indicates a common molecular mechanism for these phenomena. Here we show that ectopic expression of AID alone can induce hypermutation in an artificial GFP substrate in NIH 3T3 murine fibroblast cells. The...
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