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DNA substrate length and surrounding sequence affect the activation-induced deaminase activity at cytidine.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 20 Feb 2004
Yu Kefei, Huang Feng-Ting, Lieber Michael R
Abstract excerpt
Activation-induced deaminase (AID) is required for both immunoglobulin class switch recombination and somatic hypermutation. AID is known to deaminate cytidines in single-stranded DNA, but the relationship of this step to the class switch or somatic hypermutation processes is not entirely clear....
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