Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

REV7 is required for processing AID initiated DNA lesions in activated B cells

  • Dingpeng Yang,
  • Ying Sun,
  • Jingjing Chen,
  • Ying Zhang,
  • Shuangshuang Fan,
  • Min Huang,
  • Xia Xie,
  • Yanni Cai,
  • Yafang Shang,
  • Tuantuan Gui,
  • Liming Sun,
  • Jiazhi Hu,
  • Junchao Dong,
  • Leng-Siew Yeap,
  • Xiaoming Wang,
  • Wei Xiao,
  • Fei-Long Meng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16632-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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REV7 has emerged as a critical regulator of DNA double-strand breaks repair. Here, the authors show that REV7 is crucial for both antibody class switch recombination and somatic hypermutation in activated B cells, in addition to their survival upon AID-deamination.