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Mismatch repair proteins and AID activity are required for the dominant negative function of C-terminally deleted AID in class switching.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Aug 2014
Ucher Anna J, Ranjit Sanjay, Kadungure Tatenda, Linehan Erin K, Khair Lyne, Xie Elaine, Limauro Jennifer, Rauch Katherina S, Schrader Carol E, Stavnezer Janet
Abstract excerpt
Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) is essential for class-switch recombination (CSR) and somatic hypermutation (SHM) of Ig genes. The AID C terminus is required for CSR, but not for S-region DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) during CSR, and it is not required for SHM. AID lacking the C terminus (ΔAID) is a dominant negative (DN) mutant, because human patients heterozygous for this mutant fail to undergo...
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