Locus suicide recombination
Locus suicide recombination (LSR) constitutes a variant form of class switch recombination that eliminates all immunoglobulin heavy chain constant genes. It thus terminates immunoglobulin and B-cell receptor (BCR) expression in B-lymphocytes and results in B-cell death since survival of such cells requires BCR expression. This process is initiated by the enzyme activation-induced deaminase upon B-cell activation. LSR is thus one of the pathways that can result into activation-induced cell death in the B-cell lineage. [1]
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