Somatic recombination is a mechanism by which plants can acquire the genetic variability that enables them to respond to environmental stress conditions. In an Advanced Online Publication in Nature ...
Researchers at the University of Tokyo showed that jawless sea lampreys use a specific immune response mechanism involving "copy choice" that creates variable lymphocyte receptors (VLRs). 1 This ...
The enzyme activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) is central to the diversification of antibodies in B cells. By converting cytosine to uracil within single-stranded DNA, AID initiates somatic ...