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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809152503321

Titolo

DNA deamination and the immune system : AID in health and disease / / editors, Sebastian Fugmann, Marilyn Diaz, Nina Papavasiliou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Imperial College Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-14344-5

9786613143440

1-84816-593-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

Molecular medicine and medicinal chemistry ; ; v. 3

Altri autori (Persone)

FugmannSebastian

DiazMarilyn

PapavasiliouNina

Disciplina

571.967

Soggetti

DNA

Immune system

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Switch Regions, ChromatinAccessibility and AID Targeting; Chapter 3 Cis-Regulatory Elements that Target AID to Immunoglobulin Loci; Chapter 4 Partners in Diversity: The Search for AID Co-Factors; Chapter 5 Resolution of AID Lesions in Class Switch Recombination; Chapter 6 Error-Prone and Error-Free Resolution of AID Lesions in SHM; Chapter 7 Regulatory Mechanisms of AID Function; Chapter 8 AID in Immunodeficiency and Cancer; Chapter 9 AID in Aging and in Autoimmune Disease; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book covers the current understanding of the role of activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) in the generation of antibody response to antigenic challenge. Since the discovery of AID, and the genetic demonstration of its role in somatic hypermutation and class-switch recombination of antibody genes, much has been learned about the biochemistry of this enzyme. However, some key questions remain hotly contested, such as: how does this enzyme get to the antibody locus leaving the rest of the genome intact, and why are DNA repair pathways which normally repair deamination events co-opted