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AIDing antibody diversity by error-prone mismatch repair.
Seminars in immunology - 1 Aug 2012
Chahwan Richard, Edelmann Winfried, Scharff Matthew D, Roa Sergio
Abstract excerpt
The creation of a highly diverse antibody repertoire requires the synergistic activity of a DNA mutator, known as activation-induced deaminase (AID), coupled with an error-prone repair process that recognizes the DNA mismatch catalyzed by AID. Instead of facilitating the canonical error-free response, which generally occurs throughout the genome, DNA mismatch repair (MMR) participates in an error-prone repair...
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