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A novel mechanism for inflammation-associated carcinogenesis; an important role of activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) in mutation induction.
Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) - 1 Oct 2009
Chiba Tsutomu, Marusawa Hiroyuki
Abstract excerpt
Inflammation is a risk for cancer development; however, its mechanism is unknown. Recent studies have revealed that activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), which plays essential roles in both class-switch recombination and somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin gene in B lymphocytes, is aberrantly expressed in non-lymphoid cells not only by H.pylori and HCV infection but also by various proinflammatory...
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