Immunoglobulin E and its regulators
- 1 February 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology
- Vol. 1 (1) , 61-65
- https://doi.org/10.1097/01.all.0000010986.58020.8d
Abstract
Novel paradigms are emerging in the field of IgE regulation. Gene-environment interactions are increasingly considered to be major determinants of the type and amplitude of allergen-induced antibody responses. At the molecular level, the mechanistic connection between transcription and switching has been strengthened by the recent discovery that class switch recombination requires activation-induced deaminase, a novel RNA editing enzyme. These findings will be critical for our understanding of the mechanisms that determine immunoglobulin isotype expression during immune responses.Keywords
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