Secret Sharers in the Immune System: a Novel RNA Editing Activity Links Switch Recombination and Somatic Hypermutation

Overview

Journal Genome Biol

Specialties Biology
Genetics

Date 2001 Feb 24

PMID 11178252

Authors

N Maizels

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Abstract

A new mechanism for regulation in the immune system has been identified: a cytidine deaminase is critical for both class switch recombination and somatic hypermutation, revealing an unanticipated link between these two processes.

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