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NATURE IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages 264-U102Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ni.1991
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan [17002015, 16043228]
- Mitsubishi Pharma Research Foundation
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16043228] Funding Source: KAKEN
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To elucidate the specific role of somatic hypermutation (SHM) in mucosal immunity, we generated mice carrying a knock-in point mutation in Aicda, which encodes activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), an enzyme essential to SHM and class-switch recombination (CSR). These mutant AID(G23S) mice had much less SHM but had normal amounts of immunoglobulin in both serum and intestinal secretions. AID(G23S) mice developed hyperplasia of germinal center B cells in gut-associated lymphoid tissues, accompanied by expansion of microflora in the small intestine. Moreover, AID(G23S) mice had more translocation of Yersinia enterocolitica into mesenteric lymph nodes and were more susceptible than wild-type mice to oral challenge with cholera toxin. Together our results indicate that SHM is critical in maintaining intestinal homeostasis and efficient mucosal defense.
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