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CUTTING EDGE |
Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461
Affinity maturation of the humoral response is accomplished by somatic hypermutation and class switch recombination (CSR) of Ig genes. Activation-induced cytidine deaminase likely initiates these processes by deamination of cytidines in the V and switch regions of Ig genes. This activity is expected to produce G-U mismatches that can be substrates for MutS homolog 2/MutS homolog 6 heterodimers and for uracil DNA glycosylase. However, G-T and G-U mismatches are also substrates of the methyl-CpG binding domain 4 (Mbd4) glycosylase. To determine whether Mbd4 functions downstream of activation-induced cytidine deaminase activity, we examined somatic hypermutation and CSR in Mbd4-/- mice. In this study, we report that CSR, as analyzed by an in vitro switch assay and by in vivo immunizations, is unaffected in Mbd4-/- mice. In addition, the hypermutated JH2 to JH4 region in Peyer’s patch B cells showed no effects as a result of Mbd4 deficiency. These data indicate that the Mbd4 glycosylase does not significantly contribute to mechanisms of Ab diversification.
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