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APOBEC3G targets human T-cell leukemia virus type 1.
Retrovirology - 19 May 2005
Sasada Amane, Takaori-Kondo Akifumi, Shirakawa Kotaro, Kobayashi Masayuki, Abudu Aierkin, Hishizawa Masakatsu, Imada Kazunori, Tanaka Yuetsu, Uchiyama Takashi
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing enzyme-catalytic polypeptide-like 3G (APOBEC3G) is a host cellular protein with a broad antiviral activity. It inhibits infectivitiy of a wide variety of retroviruses by deaminating deoxycytidine (dC) into deoxyuridine (dU) in newly synthesized minus strand DNA, resulting in G-to-A hypermutation of the viral plus strand DNA. To clarify the mechanism of its function, we...
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