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AID and Apobec3G haphazard deamination and mutational diversity.
Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS - 1 Sept 2013
Jaszczur Malgorzata, Bertram Jeffrey G, Pham Phuong, Scharff Matthew D, Goodman Myron F
Abstract excerpt
Activation-induced deoxycytidine deaminase (AID) and Apobec 3G (Apo3G) cause mutational diversity by initiating mutations on regions of single-stranded (ss) DNA. Expressed in B cells, AID deaminates C → U in actively transcribed immunoglobulin (Ig) variable and switch regions to initiate the somatic hypermutation (SHM) and class switch recombination (CSR) that are essential for antibody diversity. Apo3G expressed...
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