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Leaky severe combined immunodeficiency and aberrant DNA rearrangements due to a hypomorphic RAG1 mutation.
Blood - 26 Mar 2009
Giblin William, Chatterji Monalisa, Westfield Gerwin, Masud Tehmina, Theisen Brian, Cheng Hwei-Ling, DeVido Jeffrey, Alt Frederick W, Ferguson David O, Schatz David G, Sekiguchi JoAnn
Abstract excerpt
The RAG1/2 endonuclease initiates programmed DNA rearrangements in progenitor lymphocytes by generating double-strand breaks at specific recombination signal sequences. This process, known as V(D)J recombination, assembles the vastly diverse antigen receptor genes from numerous V, D, and J coding segments. In vitro biochemical and cellular transfection studies suggest that RAG1/2 may also play postcleavage roles...
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