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Activation-induced cytidine deaminase shuttles between nucleus and cytoplasm like apolipoprotein B mRNA editing catalytic polypeptide 1.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 17 Feb 2004
Ito Satomi, Nagaoka Hitoshi, Shinkura Reiko, Begum Nasim, Muramatsu Masamichi, Nakata Mikiyo, Honjo Tasuku
Abstract excerpt
Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) is a molecule central to initiating class switch recombination, somatic hypermutation, and gene conversion of Ig genes. However, its mechanism to initiate these genetic alterations is still unclear. AID can convert cytosine to uracil on either mRNA or DNA and is involved in DNA cleavage. Although these events are expected to take place in the nucleus, overexpressed AID...
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