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SUBMITTER: Rodgers KK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5182142 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Trends in biochemical sciences 20161105 1
Development of the adaptive immune system is dependent on V(D)J recombination, which forms functional antigen receptor genes through rearrangement of component gene segments. The V(D)J recombinase, comprising recombination-activating proteins RAG1 and RAG2, guides the initial DNA cleavage events to the recombination signal sequence (RSS), which flanks each gene segment. Although the enzymatic steps for RAG-mediated endonucleolytic activity were established over two decades ago, only recently hav ...[more]