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Mol Cell Biol. 1989 May; 9(5): 1850-1856

Mutations, duplication, and deletion of recombined switch regions suggest a role for DNA replication in the immunoglobulin heavy-chain switch.

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109-0620.

ABSTRACT

The heavy-chain switch from immunoglobulin M (IgM) expression to IgA expression is mediated by a recombination event between segments of DNA called switch regions. The switch regions lie two to six kilobases upstream of the mu and alpha constant region coding segments. Switch recombination to IgA expression results in a recombinant mu-alpha switch region upstream of the expressed alpha constant region gene. We have characterized the products of switch recombination by a lymphoma cell line, I.29. Two sets of molecular clones represent the expected products of simple mu to alpha switches. Five members of a third set of molecular clones share the same recombination site in both the mu and the alpha switch regions, implying that the five molecular clones were derived from a single switch recombination event. Surprisingly, the five clones fall into two sets of sequences, which differ from each other by several point mutations and small deletions. Duplication of switch region sequences are also found in these five molecular clones. An explanation for these data is that switch recombination involves DNA synthesis, which results in nucleotide substitutions, small deletions, and duplications.

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