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PKA-mediated phosphorylation regulates the function of activation-induced deaminase (AID) in B cells.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 10 Jan 2006
Pasqualucci Laura, Kitaura Yasuyuki, Gu Hua, Dalla-Favera Riccardo
Abstract excerpt
During humoral immune responses, two distinct genetic modification events diversify the Ig genes in germinal center (GC) B cells: somatic hypermutation and class switch recombination (CSR). Both processes require the activity of activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), an enzyme expressed specifically in GC B cells. However, the mechanisms that regulate AID activity are largely unknown. Here we report that...
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