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Biochemical analysis of hypermutational targeting by wild type and mutant activation-induced cytidine deaminase.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 3 Dec 2004
Bransteitter Ronda, Pham Phuong, Calabrese Peter, Goodman Myron F
Abstract excerpt
The synthesis of high affinity antibodies requires activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) to initiate somatic hypermutation and class-switch recombination. Here we investigate AID-catalyzed deamination of C --> U on single-stranded DNA and on actively transcribed closed circular double-stranded DNA. Mutations are initially favored at canonical WRC (W = A or T, R = A or G) somatic hypermutation hot spot...
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