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Immunoglobulin gene conversion or hypermutation: that's the question.
Sub-cellular biochemistry - 1 Jan 2006
Buerstedde Jean-Marie, Arakawa Hiroshi
Abstract excerpt
Chicken B cells develop their primary immunoglobulin (Ig) gene repertoire by pseudogene templated gene conversion within the bursa of Fabricius. The DT40 cell line is derived from bursal B cells and continues to diversify its rearranged Ig light chain in cell culture. Ig gene conversion of DT40 requires expression of the AID gene which was earlier shown to be needed for Ig hypermutation and switch recombination...
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