Immunoglobulin somatic hypermutation: Double-strand DNA breaks, AID and error-prone DNA repair

Journal of Clinical Immunology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 235-246

  Wu, Xiaoping ^a,b   Feng, Junli ^a,b   Komori, Atsumasa ^a   Kim, Edmund C ^a,b   Zan, Hong ^a,b   Casali, Paolo ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AID; DSBs; Error prone DNA repair; SHM

Indexed keywords

CD40 ANTIGEN; DNA POLYMERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; CROSS LINKING; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEMORY CELL; MISMATCH REPAIR; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C MYC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION, IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

EID: 0038163573     PISSN: 02719142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024571714867     Document Type: Review

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