The role of recombination signal sequences in the preferential joining by deletion in DH-JH recombination and in the ordered rearrangement of the IgH locus |
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Authors: | Pan PY; Lieber MR; Teale JM |
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Affiliation: | Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio 78284, USA. |
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Abstract: | The bias favoring deletion over inversion in DH-JH rearrangement has been
known for years, but the underlying mechanism has yet to be fully defined.
It has been suggested that the ratio of deletion/inversion is determined by
the combined effect of two factors: (i) the relative strengths of 5' and 3'
recombination signal sequences (RSS) of a DH segment, and (ii) the
efficiency with which the deletional product (one joint) forms relative to
the inversional product (two joints). In this study, we analyzed for the
first time the effect of factor 1 alone on the biased 3' RSS utilization in
DH-JH joining by using deletional plasmids in an extrachromosomal substrate
V(D)J recombination assay. It was found that the 3' RSS and associated
coding end (12 bp) mediate recombination more efficiently than the 5'
RSS/coding end DH-JH plasmids. These results demonstrate that the effect of
the RSS/coding end alone can account, at least partially, for the
predominant deletion in DH-JH recombination. The potential effect of the
relative strength of RSS and associated coding end on the ordered
rearrangement of DH-JH followed by VH to DH-JH was also assessed. When
recombination frequencies of D-->J (3' DH to J3) were compared with
frequencies of V-- >D (VHPJ14 to 3' DH or VHOX2 to 3' DH), it was found
that V-->D joining was, if anything, more efficient than D-->J
joining. Therefore, if all three segments were accessible, RSS/coding end
effects would not contribute to the ordered rearrangement of the IgH locus.
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