Mechanisms regulating the targeting and activity of activation induced cytidine deaminase.
Curr Opin Immunol
; 25(5): 619-28, 2013 Oct.
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ABSTRACT
Activation induced cytidine deaminase (AID) plays a central role in the vertebrate adaptive immune response, initiating immunoglobulin (Ig) somatic hypermutation (SHM) and class-switch recombination (CSR). AID converts deoxycytosine (dC) in the DNA to deoxyuridine (dU), causing a DNA base-pairing mismatch. How this mismatch is recognised and resolved determines whether the site will undergo mutation, recombination or high-fidelity repair. Although AID action is essential for antibody diversification it is also known to act upon many non-Ig genes where it can cause tumourigenic mutations and translocations. Although much is known about the pathways of Ig diversification, there is still very little known about the mechanisms that target AID to its sites of action and regulate the different repair processes that can participate at these sites.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Citidina Desaminasa
Límite:
Animals
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Curr Opin Immunol
Asunto de la revista:
ALERGIA E IMUNOLOGIA
Año:
2013
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Article