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ArticleMolecular immunology2011

p21 is dispensable for AID-mediated class switch recombination and mutagenesis of immunoglobulin genes during somatic hypermutation.

Maryam Shansab, Erik Selsing

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Article in Molecular immunology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Maryam ShansabProgram in Immunology and Department of Pathology, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
Erik Selsing
Tufts University · US

Funding

IMMUNITY IN TRANSGENIC MICER01AI024465 · NIAID · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI SELSING, ERIK · 1987 to 2010
$3.8M
NIAID NIH HHS AI24465NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI024465
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In B cells, activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) induces somatic hypermutation (SHM) at rearranged immunoglobulin (Ig) variable (V) regions. Previous studies have shown that both monoubiquitination of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and translesional DNA polymerase activity are important for inducing mutagenesis during SHM. Regulation of PCNA ubiquitination by p21, also known as Cdkn1a and p21(Cip1/Waf1), is an important mechanism that controls mutation loads in mammalian cells. In this study, we have assessed whether p21 has an in vivo function in regulating mutagenesis in B cells by analyzing SHM frequency in p21-deficient mice. Our results show that p21 is dispensable for SHM. This suggests that, during SHM of Ig genes, p21 does not act to regulate mutagenesis load. We also show that p21 transcript levels are the same in both wildtype and AID-deficient B cells during B cell activation, and that AID-mediated class switch recombination (CSR) is not affected by p21 deficiency; thereby indicating that p21 regulation in B cells is not altered by AID-induced DNA damage and that p21 has no affect on AID-dependent Ig gene diversification. Our results suggest that regulation of p21 in activated B cells is probably more important for maintaining proper cell cycle progression as opposed to promoting SHM of Ig genes.

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Recombination, GeneticAICDA (Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase)AnimalsCyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p21Cytidine DeaminaseGene Expression RegulationGenes, ImmunoglobulinImmunoglobulin Class SwitchingMiceRNA, MessengerSomatic Hypermutation, ImmunoglobulinAICDA (Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase)Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p21Cytidine DeaminaseRNA, Messenger

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PMID21288574
PMCPMC3066691
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