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RAD51 paralogs promote homology-directed repair at diversifying immunoglobulin V regions.
BMC molecular biology - 28 Oct 2009
Ordinario Ellen C, Yabuki Munehisa, Handa Priya, Cummings W Jason, Maizels Nancy
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Gene conversion depends upon the same factors that carry out more general process of homologous recombination, including homologous gene targeting and recombinational repair. Among these are the RAD51 paralogs, conserved factors related to the key recombination factor, RAD51. In chicken and other fowl, gene conversion (templated mutation) diversifies immunoglobulin variable region sequences. This...
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