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Kanehiro, Y., Todo, K., Negishi, M., Fukuoka, J., Gan, W., Hikasa, T., … Kanayama, N. (2012). Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID)-dependent somatic hypermutation requires a splice isoform of the serine/arginine-rich (SR) protein SRSF1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
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Kanehiro, Y., K. Todo, Misaki Negishi, Junji Fukuoka, W. Gan, Takuya Hikasa, Y. Kaga, et al. “Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase (AID)-Dependent Somatic Hypermutation Requires a Splice Isoform of the Serine/Arginine-Rich (SR) Protein SRSF1.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2012).
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Kanehiro, Y., et al. “Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase (AID)-Dependent Somatic Hypermutation Requires a Splice Isoform of the Serine/Arginine-Rich (SR) Protein SRSF1.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2012.
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@article{y2012a,
title = {Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID)-dependent somatic hypermutation requires a splice isoform of the serine/arginine-rich (SR) protein SRSF1},
year = {2012},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
author = {Kanehiro, Y. and Todo, K. and Negishi, Misaki and Fukuoka, Junji and Gan, W. and Hikasa, Takuya and Kaga, Y. and Takemoto, Masayuki and Magari, M. and Li, Xialu and Manley, J. and Ohmori, H. and Kanayama, N.}
}
Somatic hypermutation (SHM) of Ig variable region (IgV) genes requires both IgV transcription and the enzyme activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID). Identification of a cofactor responsible for the fact that IgV genes are much more sensitive to AID-induced mutagenesis than other genes is a key question in immunology. Here, we describe an essential role for a splice isoform of the prototypical serine/arginine-rich (SR) protein SRSF1, termed SRSF1-3, in AID-induced SHM in a DT40 chicken B-cell line. Unexpectedly, we found that SHM does not occur in a DT40 line lacking SRSF1-3 (DT40-ASF), although it is readily detectable in parental DT40 cells. Strikingly, overexpression of AID in DT40-ASF cells led to a large increase in nonspecific (off-target) mutations. In contrast, introduction of SRSF1-3, but not SRSF1, into these cells specifically restored SHM without increasing off-target mutations. Furthermore, we found that SRSF1-3 binds preferentially to the IgV gene and inhibits processing of the Ig transcript, providing a mechanism by which SRSF1-3 makes the IgV gene available for AID-dependent SHM. SRSF1 not only acts as an essential splicing factor but also regulates diverse aspects of mRNA metabolism and maintains genome stability. Our findings, thus, define an unexpected and important role for SRSF1, particularly for its splice variant, in enabling AID to function specifically on its natural substrate during SHM.
