AID: A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma

Immunologic Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 14-24

  Upton, Dana C ^a   Gregory, Briana L ^a   Arya, Rahul ^a   Unniraman, Shyam ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation induced deaminase; Base excision repair; Class switch recombination; Demethylation; Somatic hypermutation

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; ACTIVATION INDUCED CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; CYTOSINE; DNA; DNA HYBRID; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; MRE11 PROTEIN; NIBRIN; PROTEIN MSH2; PROTEIN MSH6; PROTEIN MUTS; RNA POLYMERASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2A; URACIL; URACIL DNA GLYCOSIDASE;

B LYMPHOCYTE; CARCINOGENESIS; DEMETHYLATION; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MISMATCH REPAIR; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION; XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION, IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

EID: 79952661509     PISSN: 0257277X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12026-010-8190-x     Document Type: Review

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