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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
Volume 207, Issue 4, Pages 855-865Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20100244
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [1ROAI072529-01, 5RO1AI037526]
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Cancer Research Institute
- Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
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Class switch recombination (CSR) diversifies antibodies by joining highly repetitive DNA elements, which are separated by 60-200 kbp. CSR is initiated by activation-induced cytidine deaminase, an enzyme that produces multiple DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) in switch regions. Switch regions are joined by a mechanism that requires an intact DNA damage response and classical or alternative nonhomologous end joining (A-NHEJ). Among the DNA damage response factors, 53BP1 has the most profound effect on CSR. We explore the role of 53BP1 in intrachromosomal DNA repair using I-SceI to introduce paired DSBs in the IgH locus. We find that the absence of 53BP1 results in an ataxia telangiectasia mutated-dependent increase in DNA end resection and that resected DNA is preferentially repaired by microhomology-mediated A-NHEJ. We propose that 53BP1 favors long-range CSR in part by protecting DNA ends against resection, which prevents A-NHEJ-dependent short-range rejoining of intra-switch region DSBs.
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