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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 97, Issue 15, Pages 8467-8472Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.150218497
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V(D)J recombination is thought to be regulated by changes in the accessibility of target sites, such as modulation of methylation. To test whether demethylation of the kappa locus can activate recombination, we generated two recombinationally active B cell lines in which the gene for maintenance of genomic DNA methylation, Dnmt1, was flanked with loxP sites. Transduction with a retrovirus expressing both the cre recombinase and green fluorescent protein allowed us to purify recombinationally active cells devoid of methylation. Loss of methylation of the kappa locus was not sufficient to activate recombination. although transcription was activated in one line. It appears that demethylation of the kappa locus is not the rate-limiting step for altering accessibility and thus regulated demethylation does not generate specificity of recombination.
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