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Hypermutation in shark immunoglobulin light chain genes results in contiguous substitutions
Authors:Lee Susan S  Tranchina Daniel  Ohta Yuko  Flajnik Martin F  Hsu Ellen
Affiliation:Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, The State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA.
Abstract:Among 631 substitutions present in 90 nurse shark immunoglobulin light chain somatic mutants, 338 constitute 2-4 bp stretches of adjacent changes. An absence of mutations in perinatal sequences and the bias for one mutating V gene in adults suggest that the diversification is antigen dependent. The substitutions shared no patterns, and the absence of donor sequences, including from family members, supports the idea that most changes arose from nontemplated mutation. The tandem mutations as a group are distinguished by consistently fewer transition changes and an A bias. We suggest this is one of several pathways of hypermutation diversifying shark antigen-receptor genes--point mutations, tandem mutations, and mutations with a G-C preference--that coevolved with or preceded gene rearrangement.
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