In a @cp-cell.bsky.social Benchmarks article, Masamichi Muramatsu, Sidonia Fagarasan et al tell the story of the discovery of AID in the Honjo lab, solving the decades long mystery of the molecular effector of Ig class switch recombination and somatic hypermutation.
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Activation-induced cytidine deaminase: The missing piece of many puzzles
Twenty-five years ago, two Cell papers reported the key missing functional piece in
three molecular puzzles. The genetic swapping of immunoglobulin constant regions,
the mutational fine-tuning of anti...
