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Differential programming of B cells in AID deficient mice.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Hogenbirk Marc A, Heideman Marinus R, Velds Arno, van den Berk Paul C M, Kerkhoven Ron M, van Steensel Bas, Jacobs Heinz
Abstract excerpt
The Aicda locus encodes the activation induced cytidine deaminase (AID) and is highly expressed in germinal center (GC) B cells to initiate somatic hypermutation (SHM) and class switch recombination (CSR) of immunoglobulin (Ig) genes. Besides these Ig specific activities in B cells, AID has been implicated in active DNA demethylation in non-B cell systems. We here determined a potential role of AID as an...
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