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Mismatch-mediated error prone repair at the immunoglobulin genes.
Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie - 1 Dec 2011
Chahwan Richard, Edelmann Winfried, Scharff Matthew D, Roa Sergio
Abstract excerpt
The generation of effective antibodies depends upon somatic hypermutation (SHM) and class-switch recombination (CSR) of antibody genes by activation induced cytidine deaminase (AID) and the subsequent recruitment of error prone base excision and mismatch repair. While AID initiates and is required for SHM, more than half of the base changes that accumulate in V regions are not due to the direct deamination of dC...
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