Regulation of the DNA Repair Complex during Somatic Hypermutation and Class-Switch Recombination

The Fanconi Anemia Core Complex Is Dispensable during Somatic Hypermutation and Class Switch Recombination

To generate high affinity antibodies during an immune response, B cells undergo somatic hypermutation (SHM) of their immunoglobulin genes. Error-prone translesion synthesis (TLS) DNA polymerases have been reported to be responsible for all mutations at template A/T and at least a fraction of G/C transversions. In contrast to A/T mutations which depend on PCNA ubiquitination, it remains unclear ...

Related Mechanisms of Antibody Somatic Hypermutation and Class Switch Recombination.

The primary antibody repertoire is generated by mechanisms involving the assembly of the exons that encode the antigen-binding variable regions of immunoglobulin heavy (IgH) and light (IgL) chains during the early development of B lymphocytes. After antigen-dependent activation, mature B lymphocytes can further alter their IgH and IgL variable region exons by the process of somatic hypermutatio...

Somatic Hypermutation and Class Switch Recombination in Msh6

Allergic Rhinitis Patients of Switch Recombination in the Nasal Mucosa Local Somatic Hypermutation and Class

Somatic Hypermutation, Transcription, and DNA Mismatch Repair

hypermutation, suggesting that cis-acting sequences outside the mutable region regulate and target mutation. However, almost nothing is known about the detailed molecular mechanisms or transacting proteins that are responsible for V-region hypermutation. Because the mutational process begins just downstream of the promoter and requires transcriptional en-hancers (Neuberger et al., 1998), it has...