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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 97, 期 3, 页码 1166-1171出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.3.1166
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The ubiquitously expressed, error-prone DNA polymerase beta (pol beta) plays a role in base excision repair, and the involvement of this molecule in the nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) process of DNA repair has recently been demonstrated in yeast. Pol beta-deficient mice are not viable, and studies on conditional mutants revealed a competitive disadvantage of pol beta(-/-) vs. wild-type cells. We show here that pol beta-deficient mice survive up to day 18.5 postcoitum, but die perinatally; a circumstance that allowed the investigation of a potential role of pol beta in lymphocyte development by transfer of fetal liver cells (FLC) derived from pol beta(-/-) embryos into lethally irradiated hosts. FLC transfers using mutant cells lead to an almost normal reconstitution of the lymphocyte compartment, indicating that pol beta-deficiency does not prevent V(D)J recombination, which is known to employ factors of the NHEJ pathway. Mice reconstituted with pol beta(-/-) FLC mount a normal T cell-dependent immune response against the hapten (4-hydroxy-3-nitrophenyl) acetyl (NP), Moreover, germinal center B cells from NP-immunized reconstituted mice show normal levels and patterns of somatic point mutations in their rearranged antibody genes, demonstrating that pol beta is not critically involved in somatic hypermutation.
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