• V(D)J recombination (variable–diversity–joining rearrangement) is the mechanism of somatic recombination that occurs only in developing lymphocytes during...
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    required for opening the hairpins that are formed on DNA ends during V(D)J recombination, a specific type of NHEJ, and may also participate in end trimming...
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    vaccine development. V(D)J recombination in organisms with an adaptive immune system is a type of site-specific genetic recombination that helps immune cells...
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    Antibody (redirect from V region)
    combination is called V(D)J recombination and discussed below. Somatic recombination of immunoglobulins, also known as V(D)J recombination, involves the generation...
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  • Eukaryotic supergroups. V(D)J recombination, although not a DNA TE, is remarkably similar to transposons. V(D)J recombination is the process by which...
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  • number of genes available to V(D)J recombination, gene conversion between pseudogenic V segments and the currently-active V segment occur with SMH, thereby...
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    cells. TdT adds N-nucleotides to the V, D, and J exons of the TCR and BCR genes during antibody gene recombination, enabling the phenomenon of junctional...
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    Impact on the junctional repair steps of V(D)J recombination". Molecular Immunology. 120: 93–100. doi:10.1016/j.molimm.2020.01.018. PMC 7184946. PMID 32113132...
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  • VDJ genes) to create millions of permutations, in a process called V(D)J recombination. RAG-1 and RAG-2 are proteins at the ends of VDJ genes that separate...
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    repair 1C) gene. Artemis is a nuclear protein that is involved in V(D)J recombination and DNA repair. The protein has endonuclease activity on 5' and 3'...
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    with the RAG1 protein, RAG2 forms a V(D)J recombinase, a protein complex required for the process of V(D)J recombination during which the variable regions...
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    process of V(D)J recombination, but possessing distinct constant domains in their heavy chains. Naïve mature B cells produce both IgM and IgD, which are...
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    Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of V(D)J recombination, the genetic mechanism which produces antibody diversity. Although...
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  • Recombination signal sequences are conserved sequences of noncoding DNA that are recognized by the RAG1/RAG2 enzyme complex during V(D)J recombination...
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    joining of gene segments during the process of V(D)J recombination. This process of V(D)J recombination has vital roles for the vertebrate immune system...
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    created. Second, V(D)J recombination randomly selects one variable (V), one diversity (D), and one joining (J) region for genetic recombination and discards...
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    the chromosome. NHEJ is also used to repair DSBs generated during V(D)J recombination when gene regions are rearranged to create the unique antigen binding...
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  • cells through random somatic rearrangement. This process, known as V(D)J recombination, is important because it increases the receptor diversity which increases...
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  • mutations. Somatic recombination occurs physiologically in the assembly of the B cell receptor and T-cell receptor genes (V(D)J recombination), as well as in...
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  • is encoded by the V, (D), and J gene segments, the recombination of which gives rise to Ig gene allelic exclusion. V(D)J recombination occurs imprecisely...
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    immunoglobulin genes of Reed–Sternberg cells have undergone both V(D)J recombination and somatic hypermutation, establishing an origin from a germinal...
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  • Artemis complex is a protein complex that functions in V(D)J recombination, the somatic recombination process which generates diversity in T cell receptors...
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    as intermediaries in meiosis and V(D)J recombination, which are primarily repaired through homologous recombination and non-homologous end joining. Both...
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  • VJ (redirect from V J)
    dancer. V(D)J recombination, a mechanism of genetic recombination Visual J Sharp, or Visual J#, a programming language Victory over Japan Day, V-J Day Vojska...
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  • protein kinase (DNA-PKcs aka PRKDC), which leads to faulty V(D)J recombination. V(D)J recombination is necessary for recognition of a diverse range of antigens...
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    (spleen and thymus) and uses V(D)J recombination to create antigen recognition sites, rather than using genetic recombination in the variable lymphocyte...
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  • single hybridoma cell, which by chance includes the appropriate V(D)J recombination to produce the desired antibody, is cloned to produce a large population...
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    cell receptors. These distinct receptors are formed by process of V(D)J recombination gene rearrangement stimulated by RAG1 and RAG2 genes. This process...
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    repair, which rejoins double-strand breaks. It is also required for V(D)J recombination, a process that utilizes NHEJ to promote immune system diversity...
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  • in the periphery, they rearrange special segments of their DNA [V(D)J recombination process]. This process requires them to make DSBs, which are difficult...
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