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Yu K, Lieber MR. Current insights into the mechanism of mammalian immunoglobulin class switch recombination. Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol 2019; 54:333-351. [PMID: 31509023 PMCID: PMC6856442 DOI: 10.1080/10409238.2019.1659227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2019] [Revised: 08/13/2019] [Accepted: 08/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
Immunoglobulin (Ig) class switch recombination (CSR) is the gene rearrangement process by which B lymphocytes change the Ig heavy chain constant region to permit a switch of Ig isotype from IgM to IgG, IgA, or IgE. At the DNA level, CSR occurs via generation and joining of DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) at intronic switch regions located just upstream of each of the heavy chain constant regions. Activation-induced deaminase (AID), a B cell specific enzyme, catalyzes cytosine deaminations (converting cytosines to uracils) as the initial DNA lesions that eventually lead to DSBs and CSR. Progress on AID structure integrates very well with knowledge about Ig class switch region nucleic acid structures that are supported by functional studies. It is an ideal time to review what is known about the mechanism of Ig CSR and its relation to somatic hypermutation. There have been many comprehensive reviews on various aspects of the CSR reaction and regulation of AID expression and activity. This review is focused on the relation between AID and switch region nucleic acid structures, with a particular emphasis on R-loops.
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- Kefei Yu
- Michigan State University, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, 5175 Biomedical Physical Sciences, East Lansing, MI 48824
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- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Ctr., Departments of Pathology, of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and of the Section of Molecular & Computational Biology within the Department of Biological Sciences, 1441 Eastlake Ave., NTT5428, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9176
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Yewdell WT, Chaudhuri J. A transcriptional serenAID: the role of noncoding RNAs in class switch recombination. Int Immunol 2018; 29:183-196. [PMID: 28535205 DOI: 10.1093/intimm/dxx027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2017] [Accepted: 05/22/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
During an immune response, activated B cells may undergo class switch recombination (CSR), a molecular rearrangement that allows B cells to switch from expressing IgM and IgD to a secondary antibody heavy chain isotype such as IgG, IgA or IgE. Secondary antibody isotypes provide the adaptive immune system with distinct effector functions to optimally combat various pathogens. CSR occurs between repetitive DNA elements within the immunoglobulin heavy chain (Igh) locus, termed switch (S) regions and requires the DNA-modifying enzyme activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID). AID-mediated DNA deamination within S regions initiates the formation of DNA double-strand breaks, which serve as biochemical beacons for downstream DNA repair pathways that coordinate the ligation of DNA breaks. Myriad factors contribute to optimal AID targeting; however, many of these factors also localize to genomic regions outside of the Igh locus. Thus, a current challenge is to explain the specific targeting of AID to the Igh locus. Recent studies have implicated noncoding RNAs in CSR, suggesting a provocative mechanism that incorporates Igh-specific factors to enable precise AID targeting. Here, we chronologically recount the rich history of noncoding RNAs functioning in CSR to provide a comprehensive context for recent and future discoveries. We present a model for the RNA-guided targeting of AID that attempts to integrate historical and recent findings, and highlight potential caveats. Lastly, we discuss testable hypotheses ripe for current experimentation, and explore promising ideas for future investigations.
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- William T Yewdell
- Immunology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Immunology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer, New York, NY 10065, USA.,Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, NY 10065, USA
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Zhang ZZ, Pannunzio NR, Hsieh CL, Yu K, Lieber MR. Complexities due to single-stranded RNA during antibody detection of genomic rna:dna hybrids. BMC Res Notes 2015; 8:127. [PMID: 25890199 PMCID: PMC4393563 DOI: 10.1186/s13104-015-1092-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2014] [Accepted: 03/24/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Background Long genomic R-loops in eukaryotes were first described at the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus switch regions using bisulfite sequencing and functional studies. A mouse monoclonal antibody called S9.6 has been used for immunoprecipitation (IP) to identify R-loops, based on the assumption that it is specific for RNA:DNA over other nucleic acid duplexes. However, recent work has demonstrated that a variable domain of S9.6 binds AU-rich RNA:RNA duplexes with a KD that is only 5.6-fold weaker than for RNA:DNA duplexes. Most IP protocols do not pre-clear the genomic nucleic acid with RNase A to remove free RNA. Fold back of ssRNA can readily generate RNA:RNA duplexes that may bind the S9.6 antibody, and adventitious binding of RNA may also create short RNA:DNA regions. Here we investigate whether RNase A is needed to obtain reliable IP with S9.6. Findings As our test locus, we chose the most well-documented site for kilobase-long mammalian genomic R-loops, the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus (IgH) class switch regions. The R-loops at this locus can be induced by using cytokines to stimulate transcription from germline transcript promoters. We tested IP using S9.6 with and without various RNase treatments. The RNase treatments included RNase H to destroy the RNA in an RNA:DNA duplex and RNase A to destroy single-stranded (ss) RNA to prevent it from binding S9.6 directly (as duplex RNA) and to prevent the ssRNA from annealing to the genome, resulting in adventitious RNA:DNA hybrids. We find that optimal detection of RNA:DNA duplexes requires removal of ssRNA using RNase A. Without RNase A treatment, known regions of R-loop formation containing RNA:DNA duplexes can not be reliably detected. With RNase A treatment, a signal can be detected over background, but only within a limited 2 or 3-fold range, even with a stable kilobase-long genomic R-loop. Conclusion Any use of the S9.6 antibody must be preceded by RNase A treatment to remove free ssRNA that may compete for the S9.6 binding by forming RNA:RNA regions or short, transient RNA:DNA duplexes. Caution should be used when interpreting S9.6 data, and confirmation by independent structural and functional methods is essential. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13104-015-1092-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Zheng Z Zhang
- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Ctr. Molecular and Computational Biology Program, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, 1441 Eastlake Ave., Rm. 5428, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-9176, USA. .,Departments of Pathology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Molecular Microbiology & Immunology; Urology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, 1441 Eastlake Ave., Rm. 5428, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-9176, USA.
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- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Ctr. Molecular and Computational Biology Program, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, 1441 Eastlake Ave., Rm. 5428, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-9176, USA. .,Departments of Pathology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Molecular Microbiology & Immunology; Urology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, 1441 Eastlake Ave., Rm. 5428, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-9176, USA.
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- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Ctr. Molecular and Computational Biology Program, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, 1441 Eastlake Ave., Rm. 5428, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-9176, USA. .,Departments of Pathology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Molecular Microbiology & Immunology; Urology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, 1441 Eastlake Ave., Rm. 5428, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-9176, USA.
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, 5175 Biomedical Physical Sciences, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA.
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- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Ctr. Molecular and Computational Biology Program, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, 1441 Eastlake Ave., Rm. 5428, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-9176, USA. .,Departments of Pathology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Molecular Microbiology & Immunology; Urology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, 1441 Eastlake Ave., Rm. 5428, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-9176, USA.
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Zhang ZZ, Pannunzio NR, Hsieh CL, Yu K, Lieber MR. The role of G-density in switch region repeats for immunoglobulin class switch recombination. Nucleic Acids Res 2014; 42:13186-93. [PMID: 25378327 PMCID: PMC4245955 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku1100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2014] [Revised: 10/19/2014] [Accepted: 10/22/2014] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The boundaries of R-loops are well-documented at immunoglobulin heavy chain loci in mammalian B cells. Within primary B cells or B cell lines, the upstream boundaries of R-loops typically begin early in the repetitive portion of the switch regions. Most R-loops terminate within the switch repetitive zone, but the remainder can extend a few hundred base pairs further, where G-density on the non-template DNA strand gradually drops to the genome average. Whether the G-density determines how far the R-loops extend is an important question. We previously studied the role of G-clusters in initiating R-loop formation, but we did not examine the role of G-density in permitting the elongation of the R-loop, after it had initiated. Here, we vary the G-density of different portions of the switch region in a murine B cell line. We find that both class switch recombination (CSR) and R-loop formation decrease significantly when the overall G-density is reduced from 46% to 29%. Short 50 bp insertions with low G-density within switch regions do not appear to affect either CSR or R-loop elongation, whereas a longer (150 bp) insertion impairs both. These results demonstrate that G-density is an important determinant of the length over which mammalian genomic R-loops extend.
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- Zheng Z Zhang
- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Molecular and Computational Biology Program, Departments of Biological Sciences; Pathology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Molecular Microbiology & Immunology; Urology; University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, 1441 Eastlake Ave., Rm. 5428, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9176, USA
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- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Molecular and Computational Biology Program, Departments of Biological Sciences; Pathology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Molecular Microbiology & Immunology; Urology; University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, 1441 Eastlake Ave., Rm. 5428, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9176, USA
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- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Molecular and Computational Biology Program, Departments of Biological Sciences; Pathology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Molecular Microbiology & Immunology; Urology; University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, 1441 Eastlake Ave., Rm. 5428, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9176, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, 5175 Biomedical Physical Sciences, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Molecular and Computational Biology Program, Departments of Biological Sciences; Pathology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Molecular Microbiology & Immunology; Urology; University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, 1441 Eastlake Ave., Rm. 5428, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9176, USA
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Matthews AJ, Zheng S, DiMenna LJ, Chaudhuri J. Regulation of immunoglobulin class-switch recombination: choreography of noncoding transcription, targeted DNA deamination, and long-range DNA repair. Adv Immunol 2014; 122:1-57. [PMID: 24507154 PMCID: PMC4150736 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-800267-4.00001-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Upon encountering antigens, mature IgM-positive B lymphocytes undergo class-switch recombination (CSR) wherein exons encoding the default Cμ constant coding gene segment of the immunoglobulin (Ig) heavy-chain (Igh) locus are excised and replaced with a new constant gene segment (referred to as "Ch genes", e.g., Cγ, Cɛ, or Cα). The B cell thereby changes from expressing IgM to one producing IgG, IgE, or IgA, with each antibody isotype having a different effector function during an immune reaction. CSR is a DNA deletional-recombination reaction that proceeds through the generation of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) in repetitive switch (S) sequences preceding each Ch gene and is completed by end-joining between donor Sμ and acceptor S regions. CSR is a multistep reaction requiring transcription through S regions, the DNA cytidine deaminase AID, and the participation of several general DNA repair pathways including base excision repair, mismatch repair, and classical nonhomologous end-joining. In this review, we discuss our current understanding of how transcription through S regions generates substrates for AID-mediated deamination and how AID participates not only in the initiation of CSR but also in the conversion of deaminated residues into DSBs. Additionally, we review the multiple processes that regulate AID expression and facilitate its recruitment specifically to the Ig loci, and how deregulation of AID specificity leads to oncogenic translocations. Finally, we summarize recent data on the potential role of AID in the maintenance of the pluripotent stem cell state during epigenetic reprogramming.
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- Allysia J Matthews
- Immunology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA; Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, New York, USA
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- Immunology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA; Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, New York, USA
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- Immunology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA; Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, New York, USA
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- Immunology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA; Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, New York, USA.
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Marusawa H, Takai A, Chiba T. Role of activation-induced cytidine deaminase in inflammation-associated cancer development. Adv Immunol 2011; 111:109-41. [PMID: 21970953 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-385991-4.00003-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Human cancer is a genetic disease resulting from the stepwise accumulation of genetic alterations in various tumor-related genes. Normal mutation rates, however, cannot account for the abundant genetic changes accumulated in tumor cells, suggesting that certain molecular mechanisms underlie such a large number of genetic alterations. Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), a nucleotide-editing enzyme that triggers DNA alterations and double-strand DNA breaks in the immunoglobulin gene, has been identified in activated B lymphocytes. Recent studies revealed that AID-mediated genotoxic effects target not only immunoglobulin genes but also a variety of other genes in both B lymphocytes and non-lymphoid cells. Consistent with the finding that several transcription factors including nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) mediate AID expression in B cells, proinflammatory cytokine stimulation of several types of gastrointestinal epithelial cells, such as gastric, colonic, hepatic, and biliary epithelium, induces aberrant AID expression through the NF-κB signaling pathway. In vivo studies revealed that constitutive AID expression promotes the tumorigenic pathway by enhancing the susceptibility to mutagenesis in a variety of epithelial organs. The activity of AID as a genome mutator provides a new avenue for studies aimed at understanding mutagenesis mechanisms during carcinogenesis.
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- Hiroyuki Marusawa
- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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In response to an assault by foreign organisms, peripheral B cells can change their antibody affinity and isotype by somatically mutating their genomic DNA. The ability of a cell to modify its DNA is exceptional in light of the potential consequences of genetic alterations to cause human disease and cancer. Thus, as expected, this mechanism of antibody diversity is tightly regulated and coordinated through one protein, activation-induced deaminase (AID). AID produces diversity by converting cytosine to uracil within the immunoglobulin loci. The deoxyuracil residue is mutagenic when paired with deoxyguanosine, since it mimics thymidine during DNA replication. Additionally, B cells can manipulate the DNA repair pathways so that deoxyuracils are not faithfully repaired. Therefore, an intricate balance exists which is regulated at multiple stages to promote mutation of immunoglobulin genes, while retaining integrity of the rest of the genome. Here we discuss and summarize the current understanding of how AID functions to cause somatic hypermutation.
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- Robert W Maul
- Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Chaudhuri J, Basu U, Zarrin A, Yan C, Franco S, Perlot T, Vuong B, Wang J, Phan RT, Datta A, Manis J, Alt FW. Evolution of the Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Class Switch Recombination Mechanism. Adv Immunol 2007; 94:157-214. [PMID: 17560275 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2776(06)94006-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 195] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
Abstract
To mount an optimum immune response, mature B lymphocytes can change the class of expressed antibody from IgM to IgG, IgA, or IgE through a recombination/deletion process termed immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) class switch recombination (CSR). CSR requires the activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), which has been shown to employ single-stranded DNA as a substrate in vitro. IgH CSR occurs within and requires large, repetitive sequences, termed S regions, which are parts of germ line transcription units (termed "C(H) genes") that are composed of promoters, S regions, and individual IgH constant region exons. CSR requires and is directed by germ line transcription of participating C(H) genes prior to CSR. AID deamination of cytidines in S regions appears to lead to S region double-stranded breaks (DSBs) required to initiate CSR. Joining of two broken S regions to complete CSR exploits the activities of general DNA DSB repair mechanisms. In this chapter, we discuss our current knowledge of the function of S regions, germ line transcription, AID, and DNA repair in CSR. We present a model for CSR in which transcription through S regions provides DNA substrates on which AID can generate DSB-inducing lesions. We also discuss how phosphorylation of AID may mediate interactions with cofactors that facilitate access to transcribed S regions during CSR and transcribed variable regions during the related process of somatic hypermutation (SHM). Finally, in the context of this CSR model, we further discuss current findings that suggest synapsis and joining of S region DSBs during CSR have evolved to exploit general mechanisms that function to join widely separated chromosomal DSBs.
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- Jayanta Chaudhuri
- Immunology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
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Durandy A, Revy P, Imai K, Fischer A. Hyper-immunoglobulin M syndromes caused by intrinsic B-lymphocyte defects. Immunol Rev 2005; 203:67-79. [PMID: 15661022 DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-2896.2005.00222.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Hyper-immunoglobulin M (IgM) syndromes are primary immunodeficiencies characterized by normal or elevated serum IgM levels with the absence of other isotypes, pinpointing to a defect in the Ig class switch recombination (CSR). The delineation of hyper-IgM syndromes made it possible to better define the mechanisms underlying the two major events of antibody maturation in humans, CSR and introduction of somatic hypermutation (SHM) in the variable region of immunoglobulins. The description of the activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) deficiency, characterized by a defect in both CSR and SHM, demonstrated for the first time that this molecule acts as a master player in the antigen-induced Ig gene-modification events responsible for both CSR and SHM. However, deleterious mutations located in the C-terminus lead to a CSR defect without affecting SHM, providing evidence for a role of AID in CSR distinct from the cytidine deaminase activity, likely by binding to a specific CSR cofactor. Molecular causes of two other hyper-IgM conditions have not yet been defined. However, they may be caused by either a defect in AID targeting on S regions or a CSR-specific DNA-repair defect. The mechanism of action of AID remains somewhat debated, but the observation that uracil-DNA-glycosylase deficiency leads to a severe hyper-IgM syndrome strongly argues in favor of a DNA-editing activity of AID.
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- Anne Durandy
- INSERM U429, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France.
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Organization and Expression of Genes Encoding IgA Heavy Chain, Polymeric Ig Receptor, and J Chain. Mucosal Immunol 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-012491543-5/50014-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Durandy A, Revy P, Fischer A. Human models of inherited immunoglobulin class switch recombination and somatic hypermutation defects (hyper-IgM syndromes). Adv Immunol 2004; 82:295-330. [PMID: 14975260 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2776(04)82007-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Anne Durandy
- INSERM U429, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, 75015 Paris, France
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Initial human genome sequence analysis has revealed large segments of nearly identical sequence in particular chromosomal regions. The recent origin of these segments and their abundance (approximately 5%) has challenged investigators to elucidate their underlying mechanism and role in primate genome evolution. Although the precise fraction is unknown, some of these duplicated segments have recently been shown to be associated with rapid gene innovation and chromosomal rearrangement in the genomes of man and the great apes.
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- Rhea Vallente Samonte
- Department of Genetics and Center for Human Genetics, School of Medicine and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA.
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Lundqvist ML, Middleton DL, Hazard S, Warr GW. The immunoglobulin heavy chain locus of the duck. Genomic organization and expression of D, J, and C region genes. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:46729-36. [PMID: 11592961 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m106221200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The region of the duck IgH locus extending from upstream of the proximal diversity (D) segment to downstream of the constant gene cluster has been cloned and mapped. A sequence contig of 48,796 base pairs established that the organization of the genes is D-J(H)-mu-alpha-upsilon. No evidence for a functional homologue (or remnant) of a delta gene was found. The alpha gene is in inverted transcriptional orientation; class switch to IgA expression thus requires inversion of the approximately 27-kilobase pair region that includes both mu and alpha genes. The secreted forms of duck alpha and mu are each encoded by 4 constant region exons, and the hydrophobic C-terminal regions of the membrane receptor forms of alpha and mu are encoded by one and two transmembrane exons, respectively. Putative switch (S) regions were identified for duck mu and upsilon by comparison with chicken Smu and Supsilon sequences and for duck alpha by comparison with mouse Salpha. The duck IgH locus is rich in complex variable number tandem repeats, which occupy approximately 60% of the sequenced region, and occur at a much higher frequency in the IgH locus than in other sequenced regions of the duck genome.
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- M L Lundqvist
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, 173 Ashley Ave., Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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Chen X, Kinoshita K, Honjo T. Variable deletion and duplication at recombination junction ends: implication for staggered double-strand cleavage in class-switch recombination. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2001; 98:13860-5. [PMID: 11717442 PMCID: PMC61132 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.241524898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/03/2001] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Immunoglobulin class-switch recombination (CSR) gives rise to looped-out circular DNA of a cleaved S segment, which is lost eventually after cell divisions. To understand the molecular mechanism of S region cleavage during CSR, we constructed artificial CSR substrates in which inversion-type CSR takes place to retain the cleaved S segment. Sequencing analyses of recombinant clones of these substrates revealed that varying degrees of deletions and duplications exist at CSR breakpoints, suggesting the involvement of staggered cleavage of the S region in CSR. In addition, mutations frequently found near junctions showed a similar profile of base replacement to Ig somatic hypermutation. These findings suggest that single-strand tails of staggered cleavage may be repaired by error-prone DNA synthesis.
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- X Chen
- Department of Medical Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Yoshida Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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Lee CG, Kinoshita K, Arudchandran A, Cerritelli SM, Crouch RJ, Honjo T. Quantitative regulation of class switch recombination by switch region transcription. J Exp Med 2001; 194:365-74. [PMID: 11489955 PMCID: PMC2193461 DOI: 10.1084/jem.194.3.365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The isotype specificity of immunoglobulin (Ig) class switching is regulated by a cytokine which induces transcription of a specific switch (S) region, giving rise to so-called germline transcripts. Although previous studies have demonstrated that germline transcription of an S region is required for class switch recombination (CSR) of that particular S region, it has not been shown whether the level of S region transcription affects the efficiency of CSR. We addressed this question by using an artificial DNA construct containing a constitutively transcribed mu switch (Smu) region and an alpha switch (Salpha) region driven by a tetracycline-responsive promoter. The construct was introduced into a switch-inducible B lymphoma line and the quantitative correlation between Salpha region transcription and class switching efficiency was evaluated. The level of Salpha transcription was linearly correlated with CSR efficiency, reaching a plateau at saturation. On the other hand, we failed to obtain the evidence to support involvement of either RNA-DNA heteroduplex or trans germline transcripts in CSR. Taken together, it is likely that S region transcription and/or transcript processing in situ may be required for CSR. We propose that because of the unusual properties of S region DNA, transcription induces the DNA to transiently be single stranded, permitting secondary structure(s) to form. Such structures may be recognition targets of a putative class switch recombinase.
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- Chung-Gi Lee
- Department of Medical Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Department of Medical Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Department of Medical Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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Kinoshita K, Honjo T. Linking class-switch recombination with somatic hypermutation. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2001; 2:493-503. [PMID: 11433363 DOI: 10.1038/35080033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The recent discovery of a molecular link between two apparently different genetic alteration events--class-switch recombination and somatic hypermutation--has led to the idea that the recognition and cleavage of target DNA in these two events might be mediated by similar or identical molecules to those involved in RNA editing. This could mean that the complexity of mammalian genetic information may be enriched by an interplay between RNA editing and DNA modification.
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- K Kinoshita
- Department of Medical Chemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Yoshida Konoe-cho, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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Kinoshita K, Lee CG, Tashiro J, Muramatsu M, Chen XC, Yoshikawa K, Honjo T. Molecular mechanism of immunoglobulin class switch recombination. COLD SPRING HARBOR SYMPOSIA ON QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY 2001; 64:217-26. [PMID: 11232289 DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1999.64.217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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- K Kinoshita
- Department of Medical Chemistry, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, Yoshida, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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Luby TM, Schrader CE, Stavnezer J, Selsing E. The mu switch region tandem repeats are important, but not required, for antibody class switch recombination. J Exp Med 2001; 193:159-68. [PMID: 11148220 PMCID: PMC2193334 DOI: 10.1084/jem.193.2.159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2000] [Accepted: 12/06/2000] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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Class switch DNA recombinations change the constant (C) region of the antibody heavy (H) chain expressed by a B cell and thereby change the antibody effector function. Unusual tandemly repeated sequence elements located upstream of H chain gene exons have long been thought to be important in the targeting and/or mechanism of the switch recombination process. We have deleted the entire switch tandem repeat element (S(mu)) from the murine (mu) H chain gene. We find that the S(mu) tandem repeats are not required for class switching in the mouse immunoglobulin H-chain locus, although the efficiency of switching is clearly reduced. Our data demonstrate that sequences outside of the S(mu) tandem repeats must be capable of directing the class switch mechanism. The maintenance of the highly repeated S(mu) element during evolution appears to reflect selection for a highly efficient switching process rather than selection for a required sequence element.
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- Thomas M. Luby
- Department of Pathology, Program in Immunology, Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Program in Immunology and Virology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Program in Immunology and Virology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655
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- Department of Pathology, Program in Immunology, Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111
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Tian M, Alt FW. Transcription-induced cleavage of immunoglobulin switch regions by nucleotide excision repair nucleases in vitro. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:24163-72. [PMID: 10811812 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m003343200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 166] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Immunoglobulin (Ig) heavy chain class switch recombination (CSR) mediates isotype switching during B cell development. CSR occurs between switch (S) regions that precede each Ig heavy chain constant region gene. Various studies have demonstrated that transcription plays an essential role in CSR in vivo. In this study, we show that in vitro transcription of S regions in their physiological orientation induces the formation of stable R loops. Furthermore, we show that the nucleotide excision repair nucleases XPF-ERCC1 and XPG can cleave the R loops formed in the S regions. Based on these findings, we propose that CSR is initiated via a mechanism that involves transcription-dependent S region cleavage by DNA structure-specific endonucleases that function in general DNA repair processes. Such a mechanism also may underlie transcription-dependent mutagenic processes such as somatic hypermutation, and contribute to genomic instability in general.
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- M Tian
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Children's Hospital, and Center for Blood Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Tracy RB, Hsieh CL, Lieber MR. Stable RNA/DNA hybrids in the mammalian genome: inducible intermediates in immunoglobulin class switch recombination. Science 2000; 288:1058-61. [PMID: 10807577 DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5468.1058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Although it is well established that mammalian class switch recombination is responsible for altering the class of immunoglobulins, the mechanistic details of the process have remained unclear. Here, we show that stable RNA/DNA hybrids form at class switch sequences in the mouse genome upon cytokine-specific stimulation of class switch in primary splenic B cells. The RNA hybridized to the switch DNA is transcribed in the physiological orientation. Mice that constitutively express an Escherichia coli ribonuclease H transgene show a marked reduction in RNA/DNA hybrid formation, an impaired ability to generate serum immunoglobulin G antibodies, and significant inhibition of class switch recombination in their splenic B cells. These data provide evidence that stable RNA/DNA hybrids exist in the mammalian nuclear genome, can serve as intermediates for physiologic processes, and are mechanistically important for efficient class switching in vivo.
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- R B Tracy
- Department of Pathology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9176, USA
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Shanmugam A, Shi MJ, Yauch L, Stavnezer J, Kenter AL. Evidence for class-specific factors in immunoglobulin isotype switching. J Exp Med 2000; 191:1365-80. [PMID: 10770803 PMCID: PMC2193137 DOI: 10.1084/jem.191.8.1365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/1999] [Accepted: 01/21/2000] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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Immunoglobulin class switch recombination (SR) occurs by a B cell-specific, intrachromosomal deletional process between switch regions. We have developed a plasmid-based transient transfection assay for SR to test for the presence of transacting switch activities. The plasmids are novel in that they lack a eukaryotic origin of DNA replication. The recombination activity of these switch substrates is restricted to a subset of B cell lines that support isotype switching on their endogenous loci and to mitogen-activated normal splenic B cells. The factors required for extrachromosomal plasmid recombination are constitutively expressed in proliferating splenic B cells and in B cell lines capable of inducibly undergoing immunoglobulin SR on their chromosomal genes. These studies suggest that mitogens that induce switching on the chromosome induce accessibility rather than switch recombinase activity. Finally, we provide evidence for two distinct switching activities which independently mediate mu-->alpha and mu-->gamma3 SR.
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- Ananth Shanmugam
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60612
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the Program in Immunology and Virology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60612
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the Program in Immunology and Virology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60612
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Immunoglobulin switch recombination is a specialized recombination event that occurs exclusively in B lymphocytes and is focused on tandemly repetitive DNA sequences called switch regions. Switch recombination occurs as an intrachromosomal deletion event in which the deleted genetic material is excised as a circle. Although the developmental profile of this recombination event is well characterized, the underlying mechanism for switch recombination is poorly understood. Recent studies detected the presence of double strand breaks in switch DNA and the dependency of switching on the Ku and DNA-dependent protein kinase proteins which are involved in repair of double strand breaks by nonhomologous end-joining. Taken together these findings strongly suggest that switch recombination is a specialized recombination system that occurs through a DNA end-joining mechanism.
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- A Kenter
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago 60612-7344, USA.
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Kingzette M, Spieker-Polet H, Yam PC, Zhai SK, Knight KL. Trans-chromosomal recombination within the Ig heavy chain switch region in B lymphocytes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1998; 95:11840-5. [PMID: 9751752 PMCID: PMC21727 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.20.11840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Somatic DNA rearrangements in B lymphocytes, including V(D)J gene rearrangements and isotype switching, generally occur in cis, i. e., intrachromosomally. We showed previously, however, that 3 to 7% of IgA heavy chains have the VH and Calpha regions encoded in trans. To determine whether the trans-association of VH and Calpha occurred by trans-chromosomal recombination, by trans-splicing, or by trans-chromosomal gene conversion, we generated and analyzed eight IgA-secreting rabbit hybridomas with trans-associated VH and Calpha heavy chains. By ELISA and by nucleotide sequence analysis we found that the VH and Calpha regions were encoded by genes that were in trans in the germline. We cloned the rearranged VDJ-Calpha gene from a fosmid library of one hybridoma and found that the expressed VH and Calpha genes were juxtaposed. Moreover, the juxtaposed VH and Calpha genes originated from different IgH alleles. From the same hybridoma, we also identified a fosmid clone with the other expected product of a trans-chromosomal recombination. The recombination breakpoint occurred within the Smicro/Salpha region, indicating that the trans-association of VH and Calpha genes occurred by trans-chromosomal recombination during isotype switching. We conclude that trans-chromosomal recombination occurs at an unexpectedly high frequency (7%) within the IgH locus of B lymphocytes in normal animals, which may explain the high incidence of B-cell tumors that arise from oncogene translocation into the IgH locus.
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- M Kingzette
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University of Chicago, 2160 South First Avenue, Maywood, IL 60153, USA
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Casellas R, Nussenzweig A, Wuerffel R, Pelanda R, Reichlin A, Suh H, Qin XF, Besmer E, Kenter A, Rajewsky K, Nussenzweig MC. Ku80 is required for immunoglobulin isotype switching. EMBO J 1998; 17:2404-11. [PMID: 9545251 PMCID: PMC1170583 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.8.2404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 275] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Isotype switching is the DNA recombination mechanism by which antibody genes diversify immunoglobulin effector functions. In contrast to V(D)J recombination, which is mediated by RAG1, RAG2 and DNA double-stranded break (DSB) repair proteins, little is known about the mechanism of switching. We have investigated the role of DNA DSB repair in switch recombination in mice that are unable to repair DSBs due to a deficiency in Ku80 (Ku80(-/-)). B-cell development is arrested at the pro-B cell stage in Ku80(-/-) mice because of abnormalities in V(D)J recombination, and there are no mature B cells. To reconstitute the B-cell compartment in Ku80(-/-) mice, pre-rearranged VB1-8 DJH2 (mu i) and V3-83JK2 (kappa i) genes were introduced into the Ku80(-/-) background (Ku80(-/-)mu i/+kappa i/+). Ku80(-/-)mu i/+ kappai/+ mice develop mature mIgM+ B cells that respond normally to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or LPS plus interleukin-4 (IL-4) by producing specific germline Ig constant region transcripts and by forming switch region-specific DSBs. However, Ku80(-/-)mu i/+kappa i/+ B cells are unable to produce immunoglobulins of secondary isotypes, and fail to complete switch recombination. Thus, Ku80 is essential for switch recombination in vivo, suggesting a significant overlap between the molecular machinery that mediates DNA DSB repair, V(D)J recombination and isotype switching.
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- R Casellas
- Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021, USA
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Du J, Zhu Y, Shanmugam A, Kenter AL. Analysis of immunoglobulin Sgamma3 recombination breakpoints by PCR: implications for the mechanism of isotype switching. Nucleic Acids Res 1997; 25:3066-73. [PMID: 9224606 PMCID: PMC146845 DOI: 10.1093/nar/25.15.3066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The molecular mechanism of immunoglobulin switch recombination is poorly understood. Switch recombination occurs between pairs of switch regions located upstream of the constant heavy chain genes. Previously we showed that switch recombination breakpoints cluster to a defined subregion in the Sgamma3, Sgamma1 and Sgamma2b tandem repeats. We have developed a strategy for direct amplification of Smu/Sgamma3 composite fragments as well as Smu and Sgamma3 regions by PCR. This assay has been used to analyze the organization of Smu, Sgamma3 and a series of Smu/Sgamma3 recombination breakpoints from hybridomas and normal mitogen-activated splenic B cells. DNA sequence analysis of the switch fragments showed direct joining of Smu and Sgamma3 without deletions or duplications. Mutations were found in two switch junctions on both sides of the crossover point, suggesting that template switching is the most likely model for the mechanism of switch recombination. Statistical analysis of the positions of the recombination breakpoints in the Sgamma3 tandem repeat indicates the presence of two sub-clusters, suggesting non-random usage of DNA substrate in the recombination reaction.
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- J Du
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology (M/C 790), University of Illinois College of Medicine, 835 South Wolcott Avenue, Chicago, IL 60612-7344, USA
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Hagmann M, Adlkofer K, Pfeiffer P, Bruggmann R, Georgiev O, Rungger D, Schaffner W. Dramatic changes in the ratio of homologous recombination to nonhomologous DNA-end joining in oocytes and early embryos of Xenopus laevis. BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY HOPPE-SEYLER 1996; 377:239-50. [PMID: 8737989 DOI: 10.1515/bchm3.1996.377.4.239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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We have developed a versatile plasmid vector (pReco-sigma) for recombination studies. When linearized and introduced into the cells of interest, pReco-sigma allows the simultaneous determination of the relative frequencies of homologous recombination versus nonhomologous DNA-end joining (also termed end-to-end joining), the latter an example of illegitimate recombination processes. As a system we made use of stage VI oocytes and fertilized eggs of the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis, which were previously described to support homologous recombination and DNA-end joining, respectively. Extending these earlier findings, we show that oocytes yield > 80% of the homologously recombined product, whereas in eggs a highly efficient DNA-end joining activity predominates (> 95%). Both reactions, homologous recombination and DNA-end joining, are shown to occur quickly, with the majority of the respective products being formed within the first 20 minutes of incubation under optimal conditions. In fertilized eggs, up to 50% of all injected linear DNA molecules are recircularized by DNA-end joining. With high amounts of injected DNA per fertilized egg, DNA-end joining is reduced, presumably due to competition for essential factors, and homologous recombination becomes readily detectable. As there is a sequence of rapid cleavage divisions after fertilization of the egg, the fast and highly efficient DNA-end joining, even though it is error-prone at the junction site, seems to be best suited to cope with DNA double-strand breaks that might occur in the genome during early embryogenesis. On the other hand, the long-lived oocytes seem to repair DNA double-strand breaks via homologous recombination. This latter property may be exploited both in Xenopus and in other organisms to achieve homologous integration of exogenous DNA into germ cells for gene targeting.
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- M Hagmann
- Institut für Molekularbiologie II, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
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Clonality of T- and B-cell lymphoproliferative disorders can be determined by gene rearrangement studies when morphology and surface immunostaining are nondiagnostic. TcR and lg gene rearrangements have been demonstrated in many different hematologic disorders and TcR gene rearrangement has been particularly useful in the diagnosis of patients with CD8 large granular lymphocyte leukemias. TcR gene rearrangement may also be useful to distinguish Hodgkin's disease from T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Gene rearrangement is usually performed by Southern analysis, and it is beneficial to run multiple enzyme-probe combinations to maximize the detection of clonal rearrangements. More recently, several laboratories have begun to use polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for gene rearrangement analysis. PCR offers an improved turnaround time, eliminates partial digestion artifacts, and allows for the use of paraffin embedded material. In addition to rearrangements of the TcR and lg genes, analysis of alterations in other genes such as bcl-1, bcl-2, bcl-6, and c-myc are also useful as clonal markers and aid in the classification of lymphomas.
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- J A Lust
- Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA
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- J Stavnezer
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester 01655-0122, USA
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Daniels GA, Lieber MR. Transcription targets recombination at immunoglobulin switch sequences in a strand-specific manner. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 1996; 217:171-89. [PMID: 8787625 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-50140-1_12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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- G A Daniels
- Department of Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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Daniels GA, Lieber MR. Strand specificity in the transcriptional targeting of recombination at immunoglobulin switch sequences. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1995; 92:5625-9. [PMID: 7777560 PMCID: PMC41749 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.92.12.5625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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B-lymphocyte-specific class switch recombination is known to occur between pairs of 2- to 10-kb switch regions located immediately upstream of the immunoglobulin constant heavy-chain genes. Others have shown that the recombination is temporally correlated with the induction of transcription at the targeted switch regions. To determine whether this temporal correlation is due to a mechanistic linkage, we have developed an extrachromosomal recombination assay that closely recapitulates DNA deletional class switch recombination. In this assay, the rate of recombination is measured between 24 and 48 hr posttransfection. We find that recombinants are generated in a switch sequence-dependent manner. Recombination occurs with a predominance within B-cell lines representative of the mature B-cell stage and within a subset of pre-B-cell lines. Transcription stimulates the switch sequence-dependent recombination. Importantly, transcription activates recombination only when directed in the physiologic orientation but has no effect when directed in the nonphysiologic orientation.
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- G A Daniels
- Department of Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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Chaillet JR, Bader DS, Leder P. Regulation of genomic imprinting by gametic and embryonic processes. Genes Dev 1995; 9:1177-87. [PMID: 7758943 DOI: 10.1101/gad.9.10.1177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Parental genomic imprinting refers to the phenomenon by which alleles behave differently depending on the sex of the parent from which they are inherited. In the case of the murine transgene RSVIgmyc, imprinting is manifest in two ways: differential DNA methylation and differential expression. In inbred FVB/N mice, a transgene inherited from a male parent is undermethylated and expressed; a transgene inherited from the female parent is overmethylated and silent. Using a series of RSVIgmyc constructs and transgenic mice, we show that the imprinting of this transgene requires a cis-acting signal that is principally derived from the repeat sequences that make up the 3' portion of the murine immunoglobulin alpha heavy-chain switch region. Such imprinting is relatively independent of the site of transgene insertion but is influenced by the structure of the transgene itself. Imprinting is also modulated by genetic background. Detailed studies indicate that the paternal allele is undermethylated and expressed in inbred FVB/N mice and in heterozygous F1 FVB/N/C57Bl/6J mice but is overmethylated and silent in inbred C57Bl/6J mice. Consequently, the FVB/N genome appears to carry alleles of modulating genes that dominantly block methylation and permit expression of the paternally imprinted transgene. Furthermore, our results suggest that overmethylation is the default status of both parental alleles and that the paternal allele can be marked in trans by polymorphic factors that act in postblastocyst embryos.
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- J R Chaillet
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Hakim I, Amariglio N, Grossman Z, Simoni-Brok F, Ohno S, Rechavi G. The genome of the THE I human transposable repetitive elements is composed of a basic motif homologous to an ancestral immunoglobulin gene sequence. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1994; 91:7967-9. [PMID: 8058743 PMCID: PMC44525 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.91.17.7967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Amplification of rearranged human immunoglobulin heavy-chain genes using the polymerase chain reaction resulted unexpectedly in the amplification of human transposable repetitive element genomes. These were identified as members of the THE I (transposon-like human element I) transposable element family. Analysis of the THE I sequences revealed the presence of several copies of the ancestral building block described > 10 years ago by Ohno and coworkers as the primordial immunoglobulin sequence. The frequency and degree of homology of the repeats of the basic unit were similar for the two genes, as well as for two murine intracisternal A particles. These findings suggest that both the transposable genetic elements and the immunoglobulin genes originated from a common ancestral building block.
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- I Hakim
- Institute of Hematology, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel
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Cogné M, Lansford R, Bottaro A, Zhang J, Gorman J, Young F, Cheng HL, Alt FW. A class switch control region at the 3' end of the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus. Cell 1994; 77:737-47. [PMID: 8205622 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(94)90057-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 216] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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We replaced the IgH 3' enhancer (3'EH) region with a neomycin resistance gene in ES cells and generated chimeric mice in which all mature lymphocytes were either heterozygous (3'EH+/-) or homozygous (3'EH-/-) for the mutation. In vitro activated 3'EH-/- B cells responded similarly to 3'EH+/- B cells with respect to proliferation and secretion of IgM and IgG1 but were specifically deficient in IgG2a, IgG2b, IgG3, and IgE secretion. These isotype deficiencies correlated with a deficiency in accumulation of transcripts from and class switching to affected CH genes. In vivo, chimeric mice containing only 3'EH-/- B cells were deficient in serum IgG2a and IgG3. We propose that the 3'EH-/- mutation disrupts the activity of a regulatory region that influences heavy chain class switching to several different CH genes that lie as far as 100 kb upstream of the mutation.
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- M Cogné
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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van der Stoep N, Korver W, Logtenberg T. In vivo and in vitro IgE isotype switching in human B lymphocytes: evidence for a predominantly direct IgM to IgE class switch program. Eur J Immunol 1994; 24:1307-11. [PMID: 8206091 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830240610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Molecular analysis of circular excision products and composite genomic switch regions has demonstrated that in mice, immunoglobulin (Ig) isotype switching from IgM to IgE often proceeds sequentially via IgG1. Based on analysis of Ig production in cell cultures, it has been suggested that human B cells may switch to IgE via IgG4, whereas limited molecular data from in vitro switched B cells suggest a direct IgM to IgE switch program. To obtain a quantitative assessment of direct versus sequential IgE switching in humans, we have analyzed the nucleotide sequences of 29 composite S mu/S epsilon switch regions from freshly isolated human B lymphocytes from patients with atopic dermatitis and from B lymphocytes induced to switch to IgE synthesis in vitro. The data show that in these B cells IgE isotype switching progressed directly from IgM to IgE. We conclude that, in contrast to the murine IgM/IgE switch program, the IgM to IgE switch in B lymphocytes from patients with atopic dermatitis as well as in vitro stimulated B cells from healthy donors preferentially proceeds via direct S mu to S epsilon switch recombination.
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- N van der Stoep
- Department of Immunology, University Hospital Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Jung S, Siebenkotten G, Radbruch A. Frequency of immunoglobulin E class switching is autonomously determined and independent of prior switching to other classes. J Exp Med 1994; 179:2023-6. [PMID: 8195724 PMCID: PMC2191511 DOI: 10.1084/jem.179.6.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Both, in humans and in mice, a major fraction of immunoglobulin E (IgE)-expressing B lymphocytes develops by sequential Ig class switching from IgM via IgG to IgE. This sequential class switch might have functional implications for the frequency and repertoire of IgE+ cells. Here we show that in mutant mice, in which sequential switching to IgE via IgG1 is blocked, the frequency of cells switching to IgE is not affected. Thus, sequential class switching to IgE merely reflects the simultaneous accessibility of two acceptor switch regions for switch recombination, induced by one cytokine, but with markedly distinct efficiency. Analysis of switch recombination on both IgH alleles of switched cells shows that the low frequency of switching to IgE is an inherent feature of the S epsilon switch region and its control elements.
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- S Jung
- Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany
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The somatic cell-specific low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein of the chicken. Close kinship to mammalian low density lipoprotein receptor gene family members. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)42336-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Janz S, Müller J, Shaughnessy J, Potter M. Detection of recombinations between c-myc and immunoglobulin switch alpha in murine plasma cell tumors and preneoplastic lesions by polymerase chain reaction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1993; 90:7361-5. [PMID: 8346257 PMCID: PMC47137 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.90.15.7361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Virtually all murine plasmacytomas carry chromosomal translocations that activate c-myc. The predominant (approximately 90%) c-myc-activating chromosomal translocation in pristane (2,6,10,14-tetramethylpentadecane)-induced plasmacytomas in BALB/c mice is a reciprocal translocation t(12;15) in which an immunoglobulin heavy-chain switch sequence is joined to the 5' region of c-myc. The most common switch region involved is S alpha. We developed a direct PCR method to screen for recombinations between c-myc and S alpha. The critical step in establishing the method was the cloning and sequencing of the 5' flank of C alpha, a region with a reduced number of switch repeats that is much more favorable for designing specific PCR primers than the highly repetitive S alpha region. In applying this PCR method, we detected translocation-specific junction fragments in transplanted (10/16, 63%) and primary (5/15, 33%) plasmacytomas. Moreover, the sensitivity of a nested version of that technique allowed us to discern rare t(12;15)s in BALB/c mice in the preneoplastic stage of plasmacytoma-genesis (8/20 mice, 40%) as early as 30 days after administration of pristane. We conclude that t(12;15) is the probable primary, if not initiating, oncogenic step in plasmacytomagenesis.
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- S Janz
- Laboratory of Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20814
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Arakawa H, Iwasato T, Hayashida H, Shimizu A, Honjo T, Yamagishi H. The complete murine immunoglobulin class switch region of the alpha heavy chain gene-hierarchic repetitive structure and recombination breakpoints. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)53445-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Dunnick W, Hertz GZ, Scappino L, Gritzmacher C. DNA sequences at immunoglobulin switch region recombination sites. Nucleic Acids Res 1993; 21:365-72. [PMID: 8441648 PMCID: PMC309126 DOI: 10.1093/nar/21.3.365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 231] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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The immunoglobulin heavy chain switch from synthesis of IgM to IgG, IgA or IgE is mediated by a DNA recombination event. Recombination occurs within switch regions, 2-10 kb segments of DNA that lie upstream of heavy chain constant region genes. A compilation of DNA sequences at more than 150 recombination sites within heavy chain switch regions is presented. Switch recombination does not appear to occur by homologous recombination. An extensive search for a recognition motif failed to find such a sequence, implying that switch recombination is not a site-specific event. A model for switch recombination that involves illegitimate priming of one switch region on another, followed by error-prone DNA synthesis, is proposed.
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- W Dunnick
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109-0620
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Irsch J, Hendriks R, Tesch H, Schuurman R, Radbruch A. Evidence for a human IgG1 class switch program. Eur J Immunol 1993; 23:481-6. [PMID: 8382164 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830230227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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In activated murine B lymphocytes, immunoglobulin class switch recombination occurs as a highly regulated process which is targeted to distinct switch regions. Here we present first evidence that in human B lymphocytes, switch recombination is targeted to distinct switch regions as well. In a panel of clonally unrelated IgG1-expressing human B cells, immortalized by Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) transformation, seven out of nine cells show switch recombination between S mu and S gamma 1 on both alleles, the active and inactive one. The remaining cells show no switch recombination on the inactive IgH locus. The very strong correlation of switch recombination on both alleles of IgG1-expressing cells proves that class switch recombination to IgG1 is not random but directed in human B lymphocytes.
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- J Irsch
- Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, FRG
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- R L Coffman
- Department of Immunology, DNAX Research Institute, Palo Alto, California 94304
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Wuerffel R, Jamieson CE, Morgan L, Merkulov GV, Sen R, Kenter AL. Switch recombination breakpoints are strictly correlated with DNA recognition motifs for immunoglobulin S gamma 3 DNA-binding proteins. J Exp Med 1992; 176:339-49. [PMID: 1500850 PMCID: PMC2119321 DOI: 10.1084/jem.176.2.339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The deletion looping out model of switch (S) recombination predicts that the intervening DNA between switch regions will be excised as a circle. Circular excision products of immunoglobulin switch recombination have been recently isolated from lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated spleen cells. The recombination breakpoints in these large circles were found to fall within switch regions. Since switch recombination is clearly focused on switch regions, we hypothesized that some DNA-binding protein factor might be involved in specifically recognizing and facilitating the alignment of switch regions before recombination. Two DNA-binding proteins that specifically interact with two discrete regions of the S gamma 3 tandem repeat have been identified in crude and partially purified nuclear extracts derived from LPS- and dextran sulfate (DxS)-activated splenic B cells. The first factor has been found indistinguishable from NF-kappa B by mobility shift assays, methylation interference, competition binding studies, and supershift analysis using an antiserum specific for the p50 component. The second appears to be composed of two closely traveling mobilities that do not separate upon partial purification. This second complex is unique and specific for S gamma 3 by methylation interference assays and competition-binding analysis. The sites at which recombination occurs in the S gamma 3 switch region have been analyzed and found to strictly correlate with the binding sites of the S gamma 3 switch binding proteins.
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- R Wuerffel
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago 60680
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Iwasato T, Arakawa H, Shimizu A, Honjo T, Yamagishi H. Biased distribution of recombination sites within S regions upon immunoglobulin class switch recombination induced by transforming growth factor beta and lipopolysaccharide. J Exp Med 1992; 175:1539-46. [PMID: 1588279 PMCID: PMC2119254 DOI: 10.1084/jem.175.6.1539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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We have characterized extrachromosomal circular DNAs from adult mouse spleen cells that were induced to switch to immunoglobulin A (IgA) with bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta), and identified breakpoints of S mu/S gamma 3, S mu/S gamma 2, S mu/S alpha, S gamma 3/S alpha, and S gamma 2/S alpha recombinants. The S mu recombination donor sites clustered in the 3' half of the S mu region, while the S alpha recombination acceptor sites clustered in the 5' half of the S alpha region. In addition, donor and acceptor sites of S gamma regions also clustered in the 3' and 5' parts, respectively. These site preferences are in sharp contrast to the dispersed distribution of S mu/S gamma 1 breakpoints within both S mu and S gamma 1 regions upon IgG1 switch induced by LPS and interleukin 4. Our results support the hypotheses that TGF-beta increases the frequency of switch recombination events to IgA and that the switch recombination to IgA often proceeds by successive recombination of S mu/S gamma and S gamma/S alpha.
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- T Iwasato
- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Japan
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Arden B. Diversity of novel recombining elements suggests developmentally programmed expression of the T cell receptor alpha/delta locus. Eur J Immunol 1992; 22:1287-91. [PMID: 1533592 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830220525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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During fetal ontogeny, the first wave of gamma delta T lymphocytes appears in the thymus at day 14 of gestation assembling predominantly T cell receptors (TcR) with V gamma 3 and V delta 1. To identify V delta gene segments that are transcribed at day 16, subsequent to the first wave of V delta 1 expression, delta chain cDNA was amplified by the anchored polymerase chain reaction with single-sided specificity for C delta. Unexpectedly, most of the cDNA clones do not contain V gene segments. In some cDNA clones an alternative splice from the leader exon to the C delta exon has deleted the whole variable region exon. In other cDNA clones, multiple non-V-like elements are juxtaposed to the D delta 2 and J delta 1 gene segments. A large number of these diverse elements appear to be rearranged in fetal thymocytes, bringing V alpha gene segments located upstream of the recombining element into proximity to the J alpha locus. It is proposed that these rearrangements make irreversible the commitment to the TcR alpha beta lineage and determine a programmed read out of different clusters of V alpha gene segments.
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- B Arden
- Max-Planck-Institut für Immunbiologie, Freiburg, FRG
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Wuerffel RA, Kenter AL. Protein recognition motifs of S gamma 3 DNA are statistically correlated with switch recombination breakpoints. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 1992; 182:149-56. [PMID: 1490350 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-77633-5_18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- R A Wuerffel
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago 60680
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Nonhomologous recombination at sites within the mouse JH-C delta locus accompanies C mu deletion and switch to immunoglobulin D secretion. Mol Cell Biol 1991. [PMID: 1922069 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.11.11.5660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Plasma cells secrete immunoglobulins other than immunoglobulin M (IgM) after a deletion and recombination in which a portion of the immunoglobulin heavy-chain locus (IgH), from the 5'-flanking region of the mu constant-region gene (C mu) to the 5'-flanking region of the secreted heavy-chain constant-region gene (CH), is deleted. The recombination step is believed to be targeted via switch regions, stretches of repetitive DNA which lie in the 5' flank of all CH genes except delta. Although serum levels of IgD are very low, particularly in the mouse, IgD-secreting plasmacytomas of BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice are known. In an earlier study of two BALB/c IgD-secreting hybridomas, we reported that both had deleted the C mu gene, and we concluded that this deletion was common in the normal generation of IgD-secreting cells. To learn how such switch recombinations occur in the absence of a switch region upstream of the C delta 1 exon, we isolated seven more BALB/c and two C57BL/6 IgD-secreting hybridomas. We determined the DNA sequences of the switch recombination junctions in eight of these hybridomas as well as that of the C57BL/6 hybridoma B1-8. delta 1 and of the BALB/c, IgD-secreting plasmacytoma TEPC 1033. All of the lines had deleted the C mu gene, and three had deleted the C delta 1 exon in the switch recombination event. The delta switch recombination junction sequences were similar to those of published productive switch recombinations occurring 5' to other heavy-chain genes, suggesting that nonhomologous, illegitimate recombination is utilized whenever the heavy-chain switch region is involved in recombination.
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Owens JD, Finkelman FD, Mountz JD, Mushinski JF. Nonhomologous recombination at sites within the mouse JH-C delta locus accompanies C mu deletion and switch to immunoglobulin D secretion. Mol Cell Biol 1991; 11:5660-70. [PMID: 1922069 PMCID: PMC361937 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.11.11.5660-5670.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Plasma cells secrete immunoglobulins other than immunoglobulin M (IgM) after a deletion and recombination in which a portion of the immunoglobulin heavy-chain locus (IgH), from the 5'-flanking region of the mu constant-region gene (C mu) to the 5'-flanking region of the secreted heavy-chain constant-region gene (CH), is deleted. The recombination step is believed to be targeted via switch regions, stretches of repetitive DNA which lie in the 5' flank of all CH genes except delta. Although serum levels of IgD are very low, particularly in the mouse, IgD-secreting plasmacytomas of BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice are known. In an earlier study of two BALB/c IgD-secreting hybridomas, we reported that both had deleted the C mu gene, and we concluded that this deletion was common in the normal generation of IgD-secreting cells. To learn how such switch recombinations occur in the absence of a switch region upstream of the C delta 1 exon, we isolated seven more BALB/c and two C57BL/6 IgD-secreting hybridomas. We determined the DNA sequences of the switch recombination junctions in eight of these hybridomas as well as that of the C57BL/6 hybridoma B1-8. delta 1 and of the BALB/c, IgD-secreting plasmacytoma TEPC 1033. All of the lines had deleted the C mu gene, and three had deleted the C delta 1 exon in the switch recombination event. The delta switch recombination junction sequences were similar to those of published productive switch recombinations occurring 5' to other heavy-chain genes, suggesting that nonhomologous, illegitimate recombination is utilized whenever the heavy-chain switch region is involved in recombination.
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- J D Owens
- Laboratory of Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Rogozin IB, Solovyov VV, Kolchanov NA. Somatic hypermutagenesis in immunoglobulin genes. I. Correlation between somatic mutations and repeats. Somatic mutation properties and clonal selection. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1991; 1089:175-82. [PMID: 2054380 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(91)90005-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Based on the analysis of some immunoglobulin V-gene sequences, somatic mutations are assumed to occur by correction of complementary violations in heteroduplexes formed by direct or inverted repeats. Correlation between somatic mutations and repeats is investigated by a statistical weights method in 323 somatic substitutions in 14 V-genes. Assuming absence of correlation, the probability of observing data in the sample would be very low (0.00004). This result supports the idea that somatic mutations may arise from heteroduplex repair. The high frequency of these mutations in complementarity-determining regions (CDRs) of V-genes may be due to a high concentration of repeats in these regions. Analysis of somatic substitutions has revealed that stabilizing selection seems to provide conservation of framework regions (FRs) (which leads to preservation of the protein's three-dimensional structure). Positive selection may be provided by B-lymphocyte proliferation with large changes in CDRs.
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- I B Rogozin
- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Siberian Department, Novosibirsk
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van Dongen JJ, Wolvers-Tettero IL. Analysis of immunoglobulin and T cell receptor genes. Part I: Basic and technical aspects. Clin Chim Acta 1991; 198:1-91. [PMID: 1863985 DOI: 10.1016/0009-8981(91)90246-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 169] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- J J van Dongen
- Department of Immunology, University Hospital Dijkzigt/Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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