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SUBMITTER: Xu Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3545482 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xu Zhenming Z Zan Hong H Pone Egest J EJ Mai Thach T Casali Paolo P
Nature reviews. Immunology 20120625 7
Class-switch DNA recombination (CSR) of the immunoglobulin heavy chain (IGH) locus is central to the maturation of the antibody response and crucially requires the cytidine deaminase AID. CSR involves changes in the chromatin state and the transcriptional activation of the IGH locus at the upstream and downstream switch (S) regions that are to undergo S-S DNA recombination. In addition, CSR involves the induction of AID expression and the targeting of CSR factors to S regions by 14-3-3 adaptors, ...[more]