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The Journal of Immunology, 1999, 162: 6596-6601.
Copyright © 1999 by The American Association of Immunologists

Characteristics of Sequences Around Individual Nucleotide Substitutions in IgVH Genes Suggest Different GC and AT Mutators1

Jo Spencer, Mark Dunn and Deborah K. Dunn-Walters2

Department of Histopathology, Guy’s, King’s, and St. Thomas’ School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Somatic hypermutation affects Ig genes during T-dependent B cell responses and is characterized by a high frequency of single base substitutions. Hypermutation is not a completely random process; a study of mutations in different systems has revealed the presence of sequence motifs that target mutation. In a recent analysis of the sequences surrounding individual mutated bases in out-of-frame human IgVH genes, we found that the target motifs around mutated G’s and C’s are reverse complements of each other. This finding suggests that hypermutation acts on both strands of DNA, which contradicts evidence of a strand-dependent mechanism as suggested by an observed bias in A and T mutations and the involvement of transcriptional machinery. We have now extended our database of out-of-frame genes and determined the sequence motifs flanking mutated A and T nucleotides. In addition, we have analyzed the flanking sequences for different types of nucleotide substitutions separately. Our results confirm the relationship between the motifs for G and C mutations and show that the motifs surrounding mutated A’s and T’s are weaker and do not have the same relationship. Taken together with our observation of A/T strand bias in out-of-frame genes, this observation suggests that there is a semitargeted G/C mutator that is strand-independent and a separate A/T mutator that is strand-dependent and is less reliant on the local target sequence.




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