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Switching on chromosomal translocations.
Cancer research - 15 Aug 2006
Ramiro Almudena R, Nussenzweig Michel C, Nussenzweig André
Abstract excerpt
Activation-induced deaminase initiates three different antibody diversification reactions: class switch recombination, somatic hypermutation (SHM), and gene conversion. We have shown that, in addition to antibody diversification, activation-induced deaminase can also initiate Burkitt's lymphoma-like c-myc/IgH translocations. However, distinct DNA damage- and oncogene-induced checkpoints operate in B cells to...
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