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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
Volume 206, Issue 2, Pages 477-490Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20080669
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB 243]
- National Institutes of Health [AI054636, CA092625, AI31541]
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Pol zeta is an error-prone DNA polymerase that is critical for embryonic development and maintenance of genome stability. To analyze its suggested role in somatic hypermutation (SHM) and possible contribution to DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair in class switch recombination (CSR), we ablated Rev3, the catalytic subunit of Pol zeta, selectively in mature B cells in vivo. The frequency of somatic mutation was reduced in the mutant cells but the pattern of SHM was unaffected. Rev3-deficient B cells also exhibited pronounced chromosomal instability and impaired proliferation capacity. Although the data thus argue against a direct role of Pol zeta in SHM, Pol zeta deficiency directly interfered with CSR in that activated Rev3-deficient B cells exhibited a reduced efficiency of CSR and an increased frequency of DNA breaks in the immunoglobulin H locus. Based on our results, we suggest a nonredundant role of Pol zeta in DNA DSB repair through nonhomologous end joining.
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