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SCIENCE
卷 336, 期 6083, 页码 931-934出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1218692
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- Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer
- Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer
- Canceropole Grand Sud-Ouest
- Institut National du Cancer
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Remodeling of immunoglobulin genes by activation-induced deaminase (AID) is required for affinity maturation and class-switch recombination in mature B lymphocytes. In the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus, these processes are predominantly controlled by the 3' cis-regulatory region. We now show that this region is transcribed and undergoes AID-mediated mutation and recombination around phylogenetically conserved switchlike DNA repeats. Such recombination, which we term locus suicide recombination, deletes the whole constant region gene cluster and thus stops expression of the immunoglobulin of the B cell surface, which is critical for B cell survival. The frequency of this event is approaching that of class switching and makes it a potential regulator of B cell homeostasis.
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