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Insertion of 2 kb of bacteriophage DNA between an immunoglobulin promoter and leader exon stops somatic hypermutation in a kappa transgene.
Molecular immunology - 1 Apr 1997
Winter D B, Sattar N, Mai J J, Gearhart P J
Abstract excerpt
Somatic hypermutation in rearranged immunoglobulin variable genes occurs in a 2kb region of DNA that is delimited on the 5' side by the promoter and on the 3' side by intron DNA. To identify sequence features that activate the mutation mechanism, we increased the distance between the promoter and the leader region to test whether the spacing of these elements was important. The promoter was separated from the...
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