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Mismatch repair of AID-generated dU:G mispairs is critical for class switch recombination (CSR) and somatic hypermutation (SHM) in B cells. The generation of a previously unavailable  Msh2 −/− Msh6 −/−   mouse has for the first time allowed us to examine the impact of the complete loss of MutSα on lymphomagenesis, CSR and SHM. The onset of T cell lymphomas and the survival of  Msh2 −/− Msh6 −/−   and  Msh2 −/− Msh6 −/− Msh3 −/−   mice are indistinguishable from  Msh2 −/−   mice, suggesting that MSH2 plays the critical role in protecting T cells from malignant transformation, presumably because it is essential for the formation of stable MutSα heterodimers that maintain genomic stability. The similar defects on switching in  Msh2 −/−  ,  Msh2 −/− Msh6 −/−   and  Msh2 −/− Msh6 −/− Msh3 −/−   mice confirm that MutSα but not MutSβ plays an important role in CSR. Analysis of SHM in  Msh2 −/− Msh6 −/−   mice not only confirmed the error-prone role of MutSα in the generation of strand biased mutations at A:T bases, but also revealed an error-free role of MutSα when repairing some of the dU:G mispairs generated by AID on both DNA strands. We propose a model for the role of MutSα at the immunoglobulin locus where the local balance of error-free and error-prone repair has an impact in the spectrum of mutations introduced during Phase 2 of SHM.

MSH2/MSH6 Complex Promotes Error-Free Repair of AID-Induced dU:G Mispairs as well as Error-Prone Hypermutation of A:T Sites