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Complex regulation of somatic hypermutation by cis-acting sequences in the endogenous IgH gene in hybridoma cells.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 16 Aug 2005
Ronai Diana, Iglesias-Ussel Maria Dolores, Fan Manxia, Shulman Marc J, Scharff Matthew D
Abstract excerpt
To create high-affinity antibodies, B cells target a high rate of somatic hypermutation (SHM) to the Ig variable-region genes that encode the antigen-binding site. This mutational process requires transcription and is triggered by activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), which converts deoxycytidine to deoxyuridine. Mistargeting of AID to non-Ig genes is thought to result in the malignant transformation of B...
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