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Activation-induced cytosine deaminase (AID) is actively exported out of the nucleus but retained by the induction of DNA breaks.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 18 Jun 2004
Brar Sukhdev S, Watson Mary, Diaz Marilyn
Abstract excerpt
Activation-induced cytosine deaminase (AID) is a cytosine deaminase that is critical to immunoglobulin hypermutation, class switch recombination, and gene conversion. In the context of hypermutating B cells, AID deaminates cytosine in the DNA of immunoglobulin genes, leading to the accumulation o...
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