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Unequal signal and coding joint formation in human V(D)J recombination.

Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305-5324.

ABSTRACT

Substrates for studying V(D)J recombination in human cells and two human pre-B-cell lines that have active V(D)J recombination activity are described. Using these substrates, we have been able to analyze the relative efficiency of signal joint and coding joint formation. Coding joint formation was five- to sixfold less efficient than signal joint formation in both cell lines. This imbalance between the two halves of the reaction was demonstrated on deletional substrates, where each joint is assayed individually. In both cell lines, the inversional reaction (which requires formation of both a signal and a coding joint) was more than 20-fold less efficient than signal joint formation alone. The signal and coding sequences are identical in all of these substrates. Hence, the basis for these differential reaction ratios appears to be that coding joint and signal joint formation are both inefficient and their combined effects are such that inversions (two-joint reactions) reflect the product of these inefficiencies. Physiologically, these results have two implications. First, they show how signal and coding joint formation efficiencies can affect the ratio of deletional to inversional products at endogenous loci. Second, the fact that not all signal and coding joints go to completion implies that the recombinase is generating numerous broken ends. Such unresolved ends may participate in pathologic chromosomal rearrangements even when the other half of the same reaction may have proceeded to resolution.

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