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Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) promotes B cell lymphomagenesis in Emu-cmyc transgenic mice.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 30 Jan 2007
Kotani Ai, Kakazu Naoki, Tsuruyama Tatsuaki, Okazaki Il-mi, Muramatsu Masamichi, Kinoshita Kazuo, Nagaoka Hitoshi, Yabe Daisuke, Honjo Tasuku
Abstract excerpt
Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), which is essential to both class switch recombination and somatic hypermutation of the Ig gene, is expressed in many types of human B cell lymphoma/leukemia. AID is a potent mutator because it is involved in DNA breakage not only of Ig but also of other genes, including proto-oncogenes. Recent studies suggest that AID is required for chromosomal translocation involving...
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