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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
Volume 199, Issue 9, Pages 1235-1244Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20040373
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somatic hypermutation; activation-induced deaminase; nucleo-cytoplasmic trasnport; B lymphocytes; Ig class switching
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Somatic hypermutation (SHM) and class switch recombination (CSR) are initiated in activated B lymphocytes by activation-induced deaminase (AID). AID is thought to make lesions in DNA by deaminating cytidine residues in single-stranded DNA exposed by RNA polymerase during, transcription. Although this must occur in the nucleus, AID is found primarily in the cytoplasm. Here we show that AID is actively excluded from the nucleus by an exportin CRM1-dependent pathway. The AID nuclear export signal (NES) is found at the carboxyl terminus of AID in a region that overlaps a sequence required for CSR but not SHM. We find that AID lacking a functional NES causes more hypermutation ora nonphysiologic target gene in transfected fibroblasts. However, the NES does not impact on the rate of mutation of immunoglobulin genes in B lymphocytes, suggesting that the AID NES does not limit AID activity in these cells.
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