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Identification and characterization of a gain-of-function RAG-1 mutant.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Jun 2006
Kriatchko Aleksei N, Anderson Dirk K, Swanson Patrick C
Abstract excerpt
RAG-1 and RAG-2 initiate V(D)J recombination by cleaving DNA at recombination signal sequences through sequential nicking and transesterification reactions to yield blunt signal ends and coding ends terminating in a DNA hairpin structure. Ubiquitous DNA repair factors then mediate the rejoining of broken DNA. V(D)J recombination adheres to the 12/23 rule, which limits rearrangement to signal sequences bearing...
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