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Sex-Biased Aging Effects on Ig Somatic Hypermutation Targeting.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Jan 2021
Cui Ang, Chawla Daniel G, Kleinstein Steven H
Abstract excerpt
Aged individuals, particularly males, display an impaired level of Ab response compared with their younger counterparts, yet the molecular mechanisms responsible for the discrepancy are not well understood. We hypothesize that some of this difference may be linked to B cell somatic hypermutation (SHM) targeting, including error-prone DNA repair activities that are crucial to Ab diversification. To examine the...
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