AID in antibody diversification: there and back again

Y Feng, N Seija, JM Di Noia, A Martin - Trends in immunology, 2020 - cell.com
Activation-Induced cytidine Deaminase (AID) initiates affinity maturation and isotype
switching by deaminating deoxycytidines within immunoglobulin genes, leading to somatic …

Functions and malfunctions of mammalian DNA-cytosine deaminases

SU Siriwardena, K Chen, AS Bhagwat - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
The AID/APOBEC family enzymes convert cytosines in single-stranded DNA to uracils,
causing base substitutions and strand breaks. They are induced by cytokines produced …

DNA stretching induces Cas9 off-target activity

MD Newton, BJ Taylor, RPC Driessen, L Roos… - Nature structural & …, 2019 - nature.com
CRISPR/Cas9 is a powerful genome-editing tool, but spurious off-target edits present a
barrier to therapeutic applications. To understand how CRISPR/Cas9 discriminates between …

DNA-directed termination of RNA polymerase II transcription

Z Han, GA Moore, R Mitter, DL Martinez, L Wan… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Summary RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) transcription involves initiation from a promoter,
transcriptional elongation through the gene, and termination in the terminator region. In …

Mapping the sugar dependency for rational generation of a DNA-RNA hybrid-guided Cas9 endonuclease

FO Rueda, M Bista, MD Newton, AU Goeppert… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract The CRISPR–Cas9 RNA-guided endonuclease system allows precise and efficient
modification of complex genomes and is continuously developed to enhance specificity …

Real-time assembly of ribonucleoprotein complexes on nascent RNA transcripts

O Duss, GA Stepanyuk, A Grot, SE O'Leary… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Cellular protein-RNA complexes assemble on nascent transcripts, but methods to observe
transcription and protein binding in real time and at physiological concentrations are not …

AID in chronic lymphocytic leukemia: induction and action during disease progression

P Oppezzo, M Navarrete, N Chiorazzi - Frontiers in oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The enzyme activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) initiates somatic hypermutation
(SHM) and class switch recombination (CSR) of immunoglobulin (Ig) genes, critical actions …

Structural analysis of the activation-induced deoxycytidine deaminase required in immunoglobulin diversification

P Pham, SA Afif, M Shimoda, K Maeda, N Sakaguchi… - DNA repair, 2016 - Elsevier
Activation-induced deoxycytidine deaminase (AID) initiates somatic hypermutation (SHM)
and class-switch recombination (CSR) by deaminating C→ U during transcription of Ig …

Cytidine deaminase efficiency of the lentiviral viral restriction factor APOBEC3C correlates with dimerization

MB Adolph, A Ara, Y Feng, CJ Wittkopp… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The seven APOBEC3 (A3) enzymes in primates restrict HIV/SIV replication to
differing degrees by deaminating cytosine in viral (−) DNA, which forms promutagenic …

Biochemical basis of APOBEC3 deoxycytidine deaminase activity on diverse DNA substrates

MB Adolph, RP Love, L Chelico - ACS infectious diseases, 2018 - ACS Publications
The Apolipoprotein B mRNA editing complex (APOBEC) family of enzymes contains single-
stranded polynucleotide cytidine deaminases. These enzymes catalyze the deamination of …