Replication protein A interacts with AID to promote deamination of somatic hypermutation targets.

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Published in Nature on July 25, 2004

Authors

Jayanta Chaudhuri1, Chan Khuong, Frederick W Alt

Author Affiliations

1: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Children's Hospital, Center for Blood Research and Department of Genetics, Harvard University Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.

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