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USOO7820442B2 (12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 7820,442 B2 Petersen-Mahrt et al. (45) Date of Patent: Oct. 26, 2010 (54) ACTIVATION INDUCED DEAMINASE (AID) Yamanaka et al., Apollipoprotein B mRNA-editing protein induces hepatocellular carcinoma and dysplasia in transgenic animals, Proc. (75) Inventors: Svend K. Petersen-Mahrt, Cambridge Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Biochemisty, Aug. 1995, vol. 92, pp. 8483 (GB); Reuben Harris, Cambridge (GB); 8487. International Search Report Related To PCT/GB 03/02002. Michael Samuel Neuberger, Cambridge Martin A. et al., Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase Turns On (GB); Rupert Christopher Somatic Hypermutation. In Hybridomas, Nature, vol. 415, Feb. 24. Landsdowne Beale, Cambridge (GB) 2002, pp. 802-806. Jarmuz A. et al. An Anthropoid-Specific Locus Of Orphan C To U (73) Assignee: Medical Research Council, London RNA-Editing Enzymes On Chromosome-22, Genomics, vol. 79, No. (GB) 3, Mar. 2002, pp. 285-296. 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U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS (57) ABSTRACT 2005/0054073 A1* 3/2005 Honjo et al. ................ 435/232 2005/0095712 A1* 5/2005 Martin et al. ............... 435/455 The present invention identifies that the expression of Acti Vation Induced Deaminase (AID) or its homologues in cells FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS confers a mutator phenotype and thus provides a method for AU T16 748 B 10, 1996 generating diversity in a gene or gene product as well as cell EP 1174 509 A1 1, 2002 lines capable of generating diversity in defined gene products. WO WOO3,061363 T 2003 The invention also provides methods of modulating a mutator phenotype by modulating AID expression or activity. OTHER PUBLICATIONS Siddiquiet al. Exp. Cell Research, 252: 154-164, 1999.* 22 Claims, 15 Drawing Sheets US 7,820.442 B2 Page 2 OTHER PUBLICATIONS and Somatic Hypermutation.” J. Exp. Med., 195: 529-534 (Feb. 2002). Harris et al., AID is essential for Immunoglobulin V. Gene Conver Peterson-Mahrt et al. 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