The recombination-activating genes (RAGs) encode enzymes that play an important role in the rearrangement and recombination of the genes of immunoglobulin and T cell receptor molecules during the process of VDJ recombination. There are two recombination-activating gene products known as RAG-1 and RAG-2 whose cellular expression is restricted to lymphocytes during their developmental stages.
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