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Control of gene conversion and somatic hypermutation by immunoglobulin promoter and enhancer sequences.
The Journal of experimental medicine - 25 Dec 2006
Yang Shu Yuan, Fugmann Sebastian D, Schatz David G
Abstract excerpt
It is thought that gene conversion (GCV) and somatic hypermutation (SHM) of immunoglobulin (Ig) genes occur in two steps: the generation of uracils in DNA by activation-induced cytidine deaminase, followed by their subsequent repair by various DNA repair pathways to generate sequence-diversified products. It is not known how either of the two steps is targeted specifically to Ig loci. Because of the tight link...
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