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SUBMITTER: Shinoda K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8214342 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cell reports 20191201 13
During V(D)J recombination, RAG proteins introduce DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) at recombination signal sequences (RSSs) that contain either 12- or 23-nt spacer regions. Coordinated 12/23 cleavage predicts that DSBs at variable (V) gene segments should equal the level of breakage at joining (J) segments. Contrary to this, here we report abundant RAG-dependent DSBs at multiple Vκ gene segments independent of V-J rearrangement. We find that a large fraction of Vκ gene segments are flanked not o ...[more]