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Activation-induced cytidine deaminase links class switch recombination and somatic hypermutation.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 1 Apr 2003
Okazaki Ilmi, Yoshikawa Kiyotsugu, Kinoshita Kazou, Muramatsu Masamichi, Nagaoka Hitoshi, Honjo Tasaku
Abstract excerpt
Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), a putative RNA-editing cytidine deaiminase that is expressed strictly in activated B cells, is indispensable in three apparently distinct genetic alterations of immunoglobulin genes-namely, class switch recombination, somatic hypermutation, and gene conversion. Recent findings led us to propose a common DNA cleaving mechanism, in which the transient secondary structure...
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