Activation-induced cytidine deaminase

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AICDA
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Gene ontology
Molecular function
Cellular component
Biological process
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RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_020661
NM_001330343

NM_009645

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001317272
NP_065712

NP_033775

Location (UCSC)Chr 12: 8.6 – 8.61 MbChr 6: 122.53 – 122.54 Mb
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Activation-induced cytidine deaminase, also known as AICDA, AID and single-stranded DNA cytosine deaminase, is a 24

B lymphocytes, error-prone DNA repair following AID action also generates other types of mutations, such as C:G to A:T. AID is a member of the APOBEC
family.

In B cells in the

lymph nodes, AID causes mutations that produce antibody diversity, but that same mutation process leads to B cell lymphoma.[8]

Function

This gene encodes a DNA-editing deaminase that is a member of the cytidine deaminase family. The protein is involved in somatic hypermutation, gene conversion, and class-switch recombination of immunoglobulin genes in B cells of the immune system.[5][9]

AID is currently thought to be the master regulator of secondary antibody diversification. It is involved in the initiation of three separate immunoglobulin (Ig) diversification processes:

  1. Somatic hypermutation (SHM), in which the antibody genes are minimally mutated to generate a library of antibody variants, some of which with higher affinity for a particular antigen than any of its close variants
  2. Class switch recombination
    (CSR), in which B cells change their expression from IgM to IgG or other immune types
  3. Gene conversion (GC) a process that causes mutations in antibody genes of chickens, pigs and some other vertebrates.

AID has been shown

Cis-regulatory factors is suspected as AID activity is several orders of magnitude higher in the immunoglobulin "variable" region than other regions of the genome that are known to be subject to AID activity. This is also true of artificial reporter constructs and transgenes that have been integrated into the genome. A recent publication suggests that high AID activity at a few non-immunoglobulin targets is achieved when transcription on opposite DNA strands converges due to super-enhancer activity.[14]

Recently, AICDA has been implicated in active DNA demethylation. AICDA can deaminate

5-methylcytosine, which can then be replaced with cytosine by base excision repair.[15]

Mechanism

AID is believed to initiate SHM in a multi-step mechanism. AID deaminates cytosine in the target DNA. Cytosines located within hotspot motifs are preferentially deaminated (WRCY motifs W=adenine or thymine, R=purine, C=cytosine, Y=pyrimidine, or the inverse RGYW G=guanine). The resultant U:G (U= uracil) mismatch is then subject to one of a number of fates.[16]

  1. The U:G mismatch is replicated across creating two daughter species, one that remains unmutated and one that undergoes a C => T transition mutation. (U is analogous to T in DNA and is treated as such when replicated).
  2. The uracil may be excised by
    translesion synthesis DNA polymerase such as DNA polymerase eta, resulting in random incorporation of any of the four nucleotides, i.e. A, G, C, or T. Also, this abasic site may be cleaved by apurinic endonuclease (APE), creating a break in the deoxyribose phosphate
    backbone. This break can then lead to normal DNA repair, or, if two such breaks occur, one on either strand a staggered double-strand break can be formed (DSB). It is thought that the formation of these DSBs in either the switch regions or the Ig variable region can lead to CSR or GC, respectively.
  3. The U:G mismatch may also be recognized by the
    heterodimer consisting of MSH2 and MSH6
    . This heterodimer is able to recognize mostly single-base distortions in the DNA backbone, consistent with U:G DNA mismatches. The recognition of U:G mistmatches by the MMR proteins is thought to lead to processing of the DNA through exonucleolytic activity to expose a single-strand region of DNA, followed by error prone DNA polymerase activity to fill in the gap. These error-prone polymerases are thought to introduce additional mutations randomly across the DNA gap. This allows the generation of mutations at AT base pairs.

The level of AID activity in B cells is tightly controlled by modulating AID expression. AID is induced by transcription factors

mir-155, a small non-coding microRNA[18][19] controlled by IL-10 cytokine B cell signalling.[20]

Clinical significance

Defects in this gene are associated with Hyper-IgM syndrome type 2.[21] In certain haematological malignancies such as follicular lymphoma persistent AID expression has been linked to lymphomagenesis.[22]

References

  1. ^ a b c GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000111732Ensembl, May 2017
  2. ^ a b c GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000040627Ensembl, May 2017
  3. ^ "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  4. ^ "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  5. ^ a b "Entrez Gene: AICDA activation-induced cytidine deaminase".
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  7. ^ "Q9GZX7 (AICDA_HUMAN)". Retrieved 26 January 2013.
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