Biological function of activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID)

Biomedical Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 269-283

  Kumar, Ritu ^a   DiMenna, Lauren J ^b   Chaudhuri, Jayanta ^b   Evans, Todd ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

B cells; demethylation; epigenetics

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION INDUCED CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; DNA; RNA;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL FUSION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DEAMINATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME MODIFICATION; ENZYME REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN; IMMUNOREGULATION; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; DNA REPAIR; IMMUNOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; DNA; DNA REPAIR; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; RNA; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION, IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

EID: 84908618720     PISSN: 23194170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/2319-4170.128734     Document Type: Review

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