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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
47
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-11-23
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Studies in mouse, human, and chicken suggest that activation-induced deaminase (AID) is involved in three known processes leading to antibody diversification: somatic hypermutation, gene conversion, and class-switch recombination. Developing rabbit appendix provides a particularly good site for studying all three of these B cell maturation events. We report here successful cloning of rabbit AID and isolation of AID protein from rabbit appendix-cell nuclear and cytoplasmic extracts. We succeeded in identifying and locating AID protein in cells by immunohistochemical and immunofluorescent staining techniques and examined colocalization of AID and other molecules important for Ab diversification. This report extends our knowledge about AID to a mammalian species that uses gene conversion to diversify rearranged Ig genes. Although much work remains to understand fully the mechanism of action of AID and its association with other cellular components, the rabbit system now offers a particularly useful model for future studies of these dynamics.
pubmed:grant
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0027-8424
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
22
pubmed:volume
102
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
17083-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16280388-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:16280388-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:16280388-Appendix, pubmed-meshheading:16280388-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:16280388-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:16280388-Cell Division, pubmed-meshheading:16280388-Chickens, pubmed-meshheading:16280388-Cytidine Deaminase, pubmed-meshheading:16280388-Fluorescent Antibody Technique, pubmed-meshheading:16280388-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:16280388-Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains, pubmed-meshheading:16280388-Immunoglobulin Variable Region, pubmed-meshheading:16280388-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:16280388-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:16280388-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:16280388-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:16280388-Rabbits, pubmed-meshheading:16280388-Sequence Alignment
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Activation-induced deaminase cloning, localization, and protein extraction from young VH-mutant rabbit appendix.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, and SAIC Frederick, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21701, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural