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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 155, Issue 9 4322-4329, Copyright © 1995 by American Association of Immunologists
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B Nadel and AJ Feeney
Department of Immunology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
The large diversity of the Ig and TCR repertoires is accounted for by combinatorial assembly of the germ-line-encoded V, D, and J gene segments, as well as extensive modification at the junctions during the recombination process. Those modifications, termed coding-end processing, consist of removal and addition of an apparently random number of nucleotides. To obtain further insights into the mechanism of the coding-end processing, we constructed a large data base of several Ig and TCR coding ends obtained in vivo, using conditions that avoid potential bias by cellular selection events. We show that the processing patterns are not random, but rather specific for each coding end, suggesting that specific motifs in the coding-end sequence influence the processing. We found a good correlation between the presence of internal stretches of at least three A.T nucleotides, absence of stretches of G.C nucleotides, and high average nucleotide deletion. Based on a detailed analysis of the processing patterns, we propose that nicks of the hairpin intermediate take place preferentially in potential open structures formed by weaker pairings of A.T stretches. Together, these findings indicate that the sequence of the coding end plays an important role in nonrandom aspects of the recombination mechanism. This suggests that coding-end sequences might have been selected throughout evolution to participate in an early control of the development of the primary repertoire.
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