Publication Date:
2002-06-18
Description:
Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), a putative RNA-editing enzyme, is indispensable for somatic hypermutation (SHM), class switch recombination, and gene conversion of immunoglobulin genes, which indicates a common molecular mechanism for these phenomena. Here we show that ectopic expression of AID alone can induce hypermutation in an artificial GFP substrate in NIH 3T3 murine fibroblast cells. The frequency of mutations was closely correlated with the level of transcription of the target gene, and the distribution of mutations in NIH 3T3 cells was similar to those of SHM in B lymphocytes. These results indicate that AID is sufficient for the generation of SHM in an actively transcribed gene in fibroblasts, as well as B cells, and that any of the required cofactors must be present in these fibroblasts.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Yoshikawa, Kiyotsugu -- Okazaki, Il-Mi -- Eto, Tomonori -- Kinoshita, Kazuo -- Muramatsu, Masamichi -- Nagaoka, Hitoshi -- Honjo, Tasuku -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2002 Jun 14;296(5575):2033-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Medical Chemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Yoshida Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12065838" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
3T3 Cells
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Animals
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B-Lymphocytes/physiology
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Base Sequence
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Cytidine Deaminase/genetics/*metabolism
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DNA/chemistry/genetics
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Genes, Reporter
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Green Fluorescent Proteins
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Luminescent Proteins/genetics/metabolism
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Mice
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Molecular Sequence Data
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*Mutation
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Nucleic Acid Conformation
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Point Mutation
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Recombinant Proteins/metabolism
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Somatic Hypermutation, Immunoglobulin
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Transcription, Genetic
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Transfection
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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