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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 283, Issue 46, Pages 31754-31762Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M805524200
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- UGI protein
- National Institutes of Health [ES013192, R37GM21422]
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Somatic hypermutation in the variable regions of immunoglobulin genes is required to produce high affinity antibody molecules. Somatic hypermutation results by processing G.U mismatches generated when activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) deaminates C to U. Mutations at C/G sites are targeted mainly at deamination sites, whereas mutations at A/T sites entail error-prone DNA gap repair. We used B-cell lysates to analyze salient features of somatic hypermutation with in vitro mutational assays. Tonsil and hypermutating Ramos B-cells convert C -> U in accord with AID motif specificities, whereas HeLa cells do not. Using tonsil cell lysates to repair a G.U mismatch, A/T and G/C targeted mutations occur about equally, whereas Ramos cell lysates make fewer mutations at A/T sites (similar to 24%) compared with G/C sites (similar to 76%). In contrast, mutations in HeLa cell lysates occur almost exclusively at G/C sites (> 95%). By recapitulating two basic features of B-cell-specific somatic hypermutation, G/C mutations targeted to AID hot spot motifs and elevated A/T mutations dependent on error-prone processing of G.U mispairs, these cell free assays provide a practical method to reconstitute error-prone mismatch repair using purified B-cell proteins.
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