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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
Volume 197, Issue 12, Pages 1767-1778Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20030569
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class switch recombination; somatic hypermutation; activation-induced cytidine dealminase; H2AX; non-homologous end joining
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Changes in chromatin structure induced by posttranslational modifications of histones are important regulators of genomic function. Phosphorylation of histone H2AX promotes DNA repair and helps maintain genomic stability. Although B cells lacking H2AX show impaired class switch recombination (CSR), the precise role of H2AX in CSR and somatic hypermutation (SHM) has not been defined. We show that H2AX is not required for SHM, suggesting that the processing of DNA lesions leading to SHM is fundamentally different from CSR. Impaired CSR in H2AX(-/-) B cells is not due to alterations in switch region transcription, accessibility, or aberrant joining. In the absence of H2AX, short-range intra-switch region recombination proceeds normally while long-range inter-switch region recombination is impaired. Our results suggest a role for H2AX in regulating the higher order chromatin remodeling that facilitates switch region synapsis.
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