Transcription-targeted DNA deamination by the AID antibody diversification enzyme

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6933, 2003, Pages 726-730

  Chaudhuri, Jayanta ^a   Tian, Ming ^a   Khuong, Chan ^a   Chua, Katrin ^a   Pinaud, Eric ^a   Alt, Frederick W ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODIES; ENZYMES; GENES; IMMUNOLOGY; SUBSTRATES;

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

DNA;

ACTIVATION INDUCED CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; DEAMINASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAMINATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA EDITING;

AMINATION; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTIDINE; CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; DNA; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; MICE; PRECIPITIN TESTS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037452080     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01574     Document Type: Article

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