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Tandem Substitutions in Somatic Hypermutation.
Frontiers in immunology - 1 Jan 2021
Sepúlveda-Yáñez Julieta H, Alvarez Saravia Diego, Pilzecker Bas, van Schouwenburg Pauline A, van den Burg Mirjam, Veelken Hendrik, Navarrete Marcelo A, Jacobs Heinz, Koning Marvyn T
Abstract excerpt
Upon antigen recognition, activation-induced cytosine deaminase initiates affinity maturation of the B-cell receptor by somatic hypermutation (SHM) through error-prone DNA repair pathways. SHM typically creates single nucleotide substitutions, but tandem substitutions may also occur. We investigated incidence and sequence context of tandem substitutions by massive parallel sequencing of V(D)J repertoires in...
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