isotype switching to IgA isotypes

id: GO:0048290
name: isotype switching to IgA isotypes
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The switching of activated B cells from IgM biosynthesis to biosynthesis of an IgA isotype, accomplished through a recombination process involving an intrachromosomal deletion between switch regions that reside 5' of the IgM and one of the IgA constant region gene segments in the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus.

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