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AID Associates with Single-Stranded DNA with High Affinity and a Long Complex Half-Life in a Sequence-Independent Manner
13 Dec 2006
Abstract excerpt
Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) initiates secondary antibody diversification processes by deaminating cytidines on single-stranded DNA. AID preferentially mutates cytidines preceded by W(A/T)R(A/G) dinucleotides, a sequence specificity that is evolutionarily conserved from bony fish to humans. To uncover the biochemical mechanism of AID, we compared the catalytic and binding kinetics of AID on WRC (a...
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