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AID Recognizes Structured DNA for Class Switch Recombination.
Molecular cell - 3 Aug 2017
Qiao Qi, Wang Li, Meng Fei-Long, Hwang Joyce K, Alt Frederick W, Wu Hao
Abstract excerpt
Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) initiates both class switch recombination (CSR) and somatic hypermutation (SHM) in antibody diversification. Mechanisms of AID targeting and catalysis remain elusive despite its critical immunological roles and off-target effects in tumorigenesis. Here, we produced active human AID and revealed its preferred recognition and deamination of structured substrates....
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