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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Almudena Ramiro
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-12186 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
The Journal of experimental medicine 20080901 10
Activated B cells reshape their primary antibody repertoire after antigen encounter by two molecular mechanisms: somatic hypermutation (SHM) and class switch recombination (CSR). SHM and CSR are initiated by activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) through the deamination of cytosine residues on the immunoglobulin loci, which leads to the generation of DNA mutations or double-strand break intermediates. As a bystander effect, endogenous AID levels can also promote the generation of chromosome ...[more]