Circular DNA is a product of the immunoglobulin class switch rearrangement

Nature
U von SchwedlerM Wabl

Abstract

The class of immunoglobulin is defined by the constant region of its heavy chain. When a B lymphocyte switches the class of heavy chain it produces, the constant region of mu-type heavy chain is replaced; this occurs through a DNA rearrangement that brings the gene segment encoding the new constant region close to the VDJ segment encoding the variable region. The pre-B-cell line 18-81, which switches from heavy chain mu to gamma 2b production in culture, occasionally abnormally rearranges the heavy chain locus so that DNA sequences between the switch regions of mu and gamma 2b are inverted. Because looping-out is an intermediate step in generating an inversion, the switch rearrangement could occur by looping-out and deletion. Provided that recombination is reciprocal, this would produce a circle of DNA. Indeed, circular DNA molecules have been isolated as products of rearrangement among gene segments encoding the variable regions of the T-cell receptor and of the immunoglobulin heavy chain and light chain. But whereas the breakpoints for the variable region rearrangement are precisely defined, the breakpoints for any given heavy chain class switch are scattered over a length of greater than 6 kilobases, including both switch re...Continue Reading

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