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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 279, Issue 8, Pages 6496-6500Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M311616200
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM056984] Funding Source: Medline
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Activation-induced deaminase (AID) is required for both immunoglobulin class switch recombination and somatic hypermutation. AID is known to deaminate cytidines in single-stranded DNA, but the relationship of this step to the class switch or somatic hypermutation processes is not entirely clear. We have studied the activity of a recombinant form of the mouse AID protein that was purified from a baculovirus expression system. We find that the length of the single-stranded DNA target is critical to the action of AID at the Cs positioned anywhere along the length of the DNA. The DNA sequence surrounding a given C influences AID deamination efficiency. AID preferentially deaminates Cs in the WRC motif, and additionally has a small but consistent preference for purine at the position after the WRC, thereby favoring WRCr (the lowercase r corresponds to the smaller impact on activity).
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