DNA lesions and repair in immunoglobulin class switch recombination and somatic hypermutation

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1050, Issue , 2005, Pages 146-162

  Xu, Zhenming ^a   Fulop, Zsolt ^a   Zhong, Yuan ^a   Evincer III, Albert J ^a   Zan, Hong ^a   Casali, Paolo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation induced cytosine deaminase (AID); Class switch recombination (CSR); DNA lesion; Double strand break (DSB); Error prone DNA repair; Lesion bypass or translesion DNA polymerase; pol ; pol ; pol ; Somatic hypermutation (SHM)

Indexed keywords

CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; DNA; DNA POLYMERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN BINDING; B LYMPHOCYTE; BASE MISPAIRING; BINDING AFFINITY; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA DAMAGE; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EFFECTOR CELL; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCUS; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMA CELL; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION;

EID: 23744498055     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1313.119     Document Type: Conference Paper

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