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Overlapping hotspots in CDRs are critical sites for V region diversification.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 17 Feb 2015
Wei Lirong, Chahwan Richard, Wang Shanzhi, Wang Xiaohua, Pham Phuong T, Goodman Myron F, Bergman Aviv, Scharff Matthew D, MacCarthy Thomas
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Activation-induced deaminase (AID) mediates the somatic hypermutation (SHM) of Ig variable (V) regions that is required for the affinity maturation of the antibody response. An intensive analysis of a published database of somatic hypermutations that arose in the IGHV3-23*01 human V region expres...
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