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Recombinogenic phenotype of human activation-induced cytosine deaminase.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Apr 2004
Poltoratsky Vladimir P, Wilson Samuel H, Kunkel Thomas A, Pavlov Youri I
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Class switch recombination, gene conversion, and somatic hypermutation that diversify rearranged Ig genes to produce various classes of high affinity Abs are dependent on the enzyme activation-induced cytosine deaminase (AID). Evidence suggests that somatic hypermutation is due to error-prone DNA...
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