Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Enhancers serve to restrict potentially dangerous hypermutation to antibody genes

How B lymphocytes are able to direct mutations to their antibody genes to produce millions of different antibodies has fascinated biologists for decades. A new study publishing in the Open Access journal PLOS Biology on April 1 by Buerstedde and colleagues shows that this process of programed,…

Enhancers serve to restrict potentially dangerous hypermutation to antibody genes




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