Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

SHLD1 is dispensable for 53BP1-dependent V(D)J recombination but critical for productive class switch recombination

  • Estelle Vincendeau,
  • Wenming Wei,
  • Xuefei Zhang,
  • Cyril Planchais,
  • Wei Yu,
  • Hélène Lenden-Hasse,
  • Thomas Cokelaer,
  • Juliana Pipoli da Fonseca,
  • Hugo Mouquet,
  • David J. Adams,
  • Frederick W. Alt,
  • Stephen P. Jackson,
  • Gabriel Balmus,
  • Chloé Lescale,
  • Ludovic Deriano

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31287-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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SHLD1, as a component of the Shieldin (SHLD) complex, mediates DNA repair via non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ), an essential process during lymphocyte development. Here the authors show that SHLD1 is actually dispensable for lymphocyte development and V(D)J recombination, but is essential for class-switching recombination in activated B cells.