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NATURE IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages 160-U73Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ni.1977
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- Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fund
- Alfred Bressler Foundation
- National Institutes of Health
- Cancer Research Institute
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During immunoglobulin class-switch recombination (CSR), the cytidine deaminase AID induces double-strand breaks into transcribed, repetitive DNA elements called switch sequences. The mechanism that promotes the binding of AID specifically to switch regions remains to be elucidated. Here we used a proteomic screen with in vivo biotinylation of AID to identify the splicing regulator PTBP2 as a protein that interacts with AID. Knockdown of PTBP2 mediated by short hairpin RNA in B cells led to a decrease in binding of AID to transcribed switch regions, which resulted in considerable impairment of CSR. PTBP2 is thus an effector of CSR that promotes the binding of AID to switch-region DNA.
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