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ArticleThe Journal of experimental medicine2005

Shifts in targeting of class switch recombination sites in mice that lack mu switch region tandem repeats or Msh2.

Irene M Min, Lisa R Rothlein, Carol E Schrader, Janet Stavnezer, Erik Selsing

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Article in The Journal of experimental medicine, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. The regulators of BCR signaling during B cell activation.Blood science (Baltimore, Md.) · 2019
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  6. Current insights into the mechanism of mammalian immunoglobulin class switch recombination.Critical reviews in biochemistry and molecular biology · 2019
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  11. Overlapping activation-induced cytidine deaminase hotspot motifs in Ig class-switch recombination.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2011
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  15. Dependence of antibody gene diversification on uracil excision.The Journal of experimental medicine · 2007
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Irene M MinGenetics Program, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
Lisa R Rothlein
Carol E Schrader
Janet Stavnezer
Erik Selsing
Tufts University · USUniversity of Massachusetts Chan Medical School · US

Funding

MOLECULAR BASIS OF IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN SWITCHR01AI023283 · NIAID · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI SCHRADER, CAROL E · 1985 to 2014
$5.8M
IMMUNITY IN TRANSGENIC MICER01AI024465 · NIAID · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI SELSING, ERIK · 1987 to 2010
$3.8M
INTERDISCIPLINARY TRAINING PROGRAM IN CANCER GENETICST32CA065441 · NCI · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI SCHAFFHAUSEN, BRIAN S · 1995 to 2006
$1.6M
NCI NIH HHS CA 65441NCI NIH HHS T32 CA065441NIAID NIH HHS AI 23283NIAID NIH HHS AI 24465NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI023283NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI024465
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The mechanisms that target class switch recombination (CSR) to antibody gene switch (S) regions are unknown. Analyses of switch site locations in wild-type mice and in mice that lack the Smu tandem repeats show shifts indicating that a 4-5-kb DNA domain (bounded upstream by the Imu promoter) is accessible for switching independent of Smu sequences. This CSR-accessible domain is reminiscent of the promoter-defined domains that target somatic hypermutation. Within the 4-5-kb CSR domain, the targeting of S site locations also depends on the Msh2 mismatch repair protein because Msh2-deficient mice show an increased focus of sites to the Smu tandem repeat region. We propose that Msh2 affects S site location because sequences with few activation-induced cytidine deaminase targets generate mostly switch DNA cleavages that require Msh2-directed processing to allow CSR joining.

Indexed as

Models, GeneticAnimalsAntibody DiversityDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA PrimersImmunoglobulin Class SwitchingImmunoglobulin Switch RegionMiceMice, KnockoutMutS Homolog 2 ProteinPolymerase Chain ReactionProto-Oncogene ProteinsTandem Repeat SequencesDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA PrimersMsh2 protein, mouseMutS Homolog 2 ProteinProto-Oncogene Proteins

Identifiers

PMID15955838
PMCPMC2212040
OpenAlexW2160245775

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