Article
Somatic hypermutagenesis in immunoglobulin genes. I. Correlation between somatic mutations and repeats. Somatic mutation properties and clonal selection.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 13 Jun 1991
Rogozin I B, Solovyov V V, Kolchanov N A
Abstract excerpt
Based on the analysis of some immunoglobulin V-gene sequences, somatic mutations are assumed to occur by correction of complementary violations in heteroduplexes formed by direct or inverted repeats. Correlation between somatic mutations and repeats is investigated by a statistical weights method in 323 somatic substitutions in 14 V-genes. Assuming absence of correlation, the probability of observing data in the...
Topics
- Animals
- B-Lymphocytes
- Base Sequence
- Genes, Immunoglobulin
- Immunoglobulin Variable Region
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Nucleic Acid Heteroduplexes
