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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-8-13
pubmed:abstractText
We review some experiments designed to test recombination-based mechanisms for somatic hypermutation in mice, particularly mechanisms involving templated mutation or gene conversion. As recombination and repair functions are highly conserved among prokaryotes and eukaryotes, pathways of mutation in microorganisms may prove relevant to the mechanism of somatic hypermutation. Escherichia coli initiates a recombination-based pathway of mutation in response to environmental stimuli, and this "adaptive" pathway of mutation has striking similarities with somatic hypermutation, as does a process of mutagenic repair that occurs at double-strand breaks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We present a model for recombination-based hypermutation of the immunoglobulin loci which could result in either templated or non-templated mutation.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0105-2896
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
162
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
67-76
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Recombination-based mechanisms for somatic hypermutation.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8114, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Review