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Single-Stranded DNA Breaks Adjacent to Cytosines Occur during Ig Gene Class Switch Recombination

^* Division of Therapeutic Proteins, Office of Biotechnology Products, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD 20892

Class switch recombination (CSR) at the DNA level underlies ability of B lymphocytes to switch from expressing IgM to expressing IgG, IgA, or IgE. The mechanism of CSR is largely unknown, but it is clear that CSR is stimulated by T cell signals and is mediated in part by activation-induced deaminase (AID), an enzyme that is also required for somatic hypermutation of Ig genes. In one current model, AID is proposed to initiate CSR by deaminating cytosines in the unpaired nontemplate strand of DNA displaced from its complementary strand by the "sterile" RNA transcript across the switch region. We have used LM-PCR to analyze single-strand breaks in CH12F3-2, a murine cell line that switches in vitro to IgA expression. In contrast to the above model, we have detected CSR-associated ssDNA breaks in the template strand of the H chain switch region, the strand thought to be complexed with RNA. Most breaks are adjacent to cytosines, consistent with mediation by AID, and occur within the novel consensus sequence C*AG, which occurs much more frequently on the template strand than on the putatively displaced nontemplate strand. These results suggest that AID may target the DNA strand bound to RNA, perhaps resembling APOBEC-3G, a cytosine deaminase related to AID that inhibits HIV replication by mutating viral DNA. Furthermore, the absence of detectable breaks in the nontemplate strand within the DNA segment under study suggests that the two DNA strands are handled differently in the generation or processing of strand breaks.

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