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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6902
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-9-5
pubmed:abstractText
A functional immune system depends on the production of a wide range of immunoglobulin molecules. Immunoglobulin variable region (IgV) genes are diversified after gene rearrangement by hypermutation. In the DNA deamination model, we have proposed that deamination of dC residues to dU by activation-induced deaminase (AID) triggers this diversification. In hypermutating chicken DT40 B cells, most IgV mutations are dC --> dG/dA or dG --> dC/dT transversions, which are proposed to result from replication over sites of base loss produced by the excision activity of uracil-DNA glycosylase. Blocking the activity of uracil-DNA glycosylase should instead lead to replication over the dU lesion, resulting in dC --> dT (and dG --> dA) transitions. Here we show that expression in DT40 cells of a bacteriophage-encoded protein that inhibits uracil-DNA glycosylase shifts the pattern of IgV gene mutations from transversion dominance to transition dominance. This is good evidence that antibody diversification involves dC --> dU deamination within the immunoglobulin locus itself.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0028-0836
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
5
pubmed:volume
419
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
43-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-10-4
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12214226-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:12214226-Antibody Diversity, pubmed-meshheading:12214226-B-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:12214226-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:12214226-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:12214226-Chickens, pubmed-meshheading:12214226-Cytidine Deaminase, pubmed-meshheading:12214226-DNA Glycosylases, pubmed-meshheading:12214226-DNA Repair, pubmed-meshheading:12214226-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:12214226-Fibroblasts, pubmed-meshheading:12214226-Gene Deletion, pubmed-meshheading:12214226-Genes, Immunoglobulin, pubmed-meshheading:12214226-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:12214226-Mutagenesis, pubmed-meshheading:12214226-N-Glycosyl Hydrolases, pubmed-meshheading:12214226-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:12214226-Somatic Hypermutation, Immunoglobulin, pubmed-meshheading:12214226-Transfection, pubmed-meshheading:12214226-Uracil-DNA Glycosidase, pubmed-meshheading:12214226-Viral Proteins
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Altering the pathway of immunoglobulin hypermutation by inhibiting uracil-DNA glycosylase.
pubmed:affiliation
Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't