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The concerted action of Msh2 and UNG stimulates somatic hypermutation at A . T base pairs.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Sept 2009
Frieder Darina, Larijani Mani, Collins Cathy, Shulman Marc, Martin Alberto
Abstract excerpt
Mismatch repair plays an essential role in reducing the cellular mutation load. Paradoxically, proteins in this pathway produce A . T mutations during the somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin genes. Although recent evidence implicates the translesional DNA polymerase eta in producing these mutations, it is unknown how this or other translesional polymerases are recruited to immunoglobulin genes, since these...
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