Alternative end-joining and classical nonhomologous end-joining pathways repair different types of double-strand breaks during class-switch recombination

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 191, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 5751-5763

  Cortizas, Elena M ^a   Zahn, Astrid ^b   Hajjar, Maurice E ^a   Patenaude, Anne Marie ^b   Di Noia, Javier M ^b,c   Verdun, Ramiro E ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^e GERIATRIC RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CLINICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION INDUCED CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; BINDING PROTEIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL BINDING PROTEIN INTERACTING PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; EXONUCLEASE; HISTONE H2AX; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; PROTEIN MSH2; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAMINATION; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPLEEN CELL;

EID: 84888330687     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1301300     Document Type: Article

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