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A combined nuclear and nucleolar localization motif in activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) controls immunoglobulin class switching.
Journal of molecular biology - 23 Jan 2013
Hu Yi, Ericsson Ida, Torseth Kathrin, Methot Stephen P, Sundheim Ottar, Liabakk Nina B, Slupphaug Geir, Di Noia Javier M, Krokan Hans E, Kavli Bodil
Abstract excerpt
Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) is a DNA mutator enzyme essential for adaptive immunity. AID initiates somatic hypermutation and class switch recombination (CSR) by deaminating cytosine to uracil in specific immunoglobulin (Ig) gene regions. However, other loci, including cancer-related genes, are also targeted. Thus, tight regulation of AID is crucial to balance immunity versus disease such as...
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