Somatic hypermutation at A•T pairs: Polymerase error versus dUTP incorporation

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 171-178

  Neuberger, Michael S ^a   Di Noia, Javier M ^a   Beale, Rupert C L ^a   Williams, Gareth T ^a   Yang, Zizhen ^a   Rada, Cristina ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHATASE; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE ALPHA; URACIL; ADENINE; DEOXYURIDINE PHOSPHATE; DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; THYMINE;

BASE MISPAIRING; BASE PAIRING; CATALYSIS; DEAMINATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; IMMUNOGENETICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; HUMAN;

ADENINE; ANIMALS; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; BASE PAIRING; DEOXYURACIL NUCLEOTIDES; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; HUMANS; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; THYMINE;

EID: 13444259474     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri1553     Document Type: Review

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