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Estrogen directly activates AID transcription and function.
The Journal of experimental medicine - 16 Jan 2009
Pauklin Siim, Sernández Isora V, Bachmann Gudrun, Ramiro Almudena R, Petersen-Mahrt Svend K
Abstract excerpt
The immunological targets of estrogen at the molecular, humoral, and cellular level have been well documented, as has estrogen's role in establishing a gender bias in autoimmunity and cancer. During a healthy immune response, activation-induced deaminase (AID) deaminates cytosines at immunoglobul...
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