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APE1 is dispensable for S-region cleavage but required for its repair in class switch recombination.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 2 Dec 2014
Xu Jianliang, Husain Afzal, Hu Wenjun, Honjo Tasuku, Kobayashi Maki
Abstract excerpt
Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) is essential for antibody diversification, namely somatic hypermutation (SHM) and class switch recombination (CSR). The deficiency of apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (Ape1) in CH12F3-2A B cells reduces CSR to ∼20% of wild-type cells, whereas the effect of APE1 loss on SHM has not been examined. Here we show that, although APE1's endonuclease activity is important...
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