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Cancers 2011, 3(2), 2750-2766; doi:10.3390/cancers3022750
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Acquisition of Genetic Aberrations by Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase (AID) during Inflammation-Associated Carcinogenesis
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 54 Shogoin-Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan
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Received: 13 May 2011; in revised form: 9 June 2011 / Accepted: 14 June 2011 / Published: 22 June 2011
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exploring Inflammation in Cancers)
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Abstract: Genetic abnormalities such as nucleotide alterations and chromosomal disorders that accumulate in various tumor-related genes have an important role in cancer development. The precise mechanism of the acquisition of genetic aberrations, however, remains unclear. Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), a nucleotide editing enzyme, is essential for the diversification of antibody production. AID is expressed only in activated B lymphocytes under physiologic conditions and induces somatic hypermutation and class switch recombination in immunoglobulin genes. Inflammation leads to aberrant AID expression in various gastrointestinal organs and increased AID expression contributes to cancer development by inducing genetic alterations in epithelial cells. Studies of how AID induces genetic disorders are expected to elucidate the mechanism of inflammation-associated carcinogenesis.
Keywords: activation-induced cytidine deaminase; inflammation; carcinogenesis; genetic alteration
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Takai, A.; Marusawa, H.; Chiba, T. Acquisition of Genetic Aberrations by Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase (AID) during Inflammation-Associated Carcinogenesis. Cancers 2011, 3, 2750-2766.
AMA StyleTakai A, Marusawa H, Chiba T. Acquisition of Genetic Aberrations by Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase (AID) during Inflammation-Associated Carcinogenesis. Cancers. 2011; 3(2):2750-2766.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTakai, Atsushi; Marusawa, Hiroyuki; Chiba, Tsutomu. 2011. "Acquisition of Genetic Aberrations by Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase (AID) during Inflammation-Associated Carcinogenesis." Cancers 3, no. 2: 2750-2766.