II. Correlations between secondary structure stability and mutation frequency during somatic hypermutation

Barbara E. Wright; Karen H. Schmidt; Nick Davis; Aaron T. Hunt; Michael F. Minnick

doi:10.1016/j.molimm.2008.05.012

II. Correlations between secondary structure stability and mutation frequency during somatic hypermutation

Barbara E. Wright, Karen H. Schmidt, Nick Davis, Aaron T. Hunt, Michael F. Minnick

Biological Sciences

University of Montana

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Abstract

The role of secondary structures and base mutability at different levels of transcription and supercoiling is analyzed in variable region antibody genes VH5, VH94 and VH186.2. The data are consistent with a model of somatic hypermutation in which increasing levels of transcription and secondary structure stability correlate with the initial formation of successive mutable sites. Encoded differences exist in stem length and the number of GC pairs at low versus high levels of transcription in CDRs. These circumstances simplify the complexities of coordinating mutagenesis by confining this process to each mutable site successively, as they form in response to increasing levels of transcription during affinity maturation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3600-3608
Number of pages	9
Journal	Molecular Immunology
Volume	45
Issue number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molimm.2008.05.012
State	Published - Aug 2008

Keywords

Computer model
DNA secondary structures
Somatic hypermutation
Transcription
VH genes

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