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DNA-dependent protein kinase inhibits AID-induced antibody gene conversion.
PLoS biology - 1 Apr 2007
Cook Adam J L, Raftery Joanna M, Lau K K Edwin, Jessup Andrew, Harris Reuben S, Takeda Shunichi, Jolly Christopher J
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Affinity maturation and class switching of antibodies requires activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID)-dependent hypermutation of Ig V(D)J rearrangements and Ig S regions, respectively, in activated B cells. AID deaminates deoxycytidine bases in Ig genes, converting them into deoxyuridines. I...
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