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Dual effect of APOBEC3G on Hepatitis B virus.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Feb 2007
Noguchi Chiemi, Hiraga Nobuhiko, Mori Nami, Tsuge Masataka, Imamura Michio, Takahashi Shoichi, Fujimoto Yoshifumi, Ochi Hidenori, Abe Hiromi, Maekawa Toshiro, Yatsuji Hiromi, Shirakawa Kotaro, Takaori-Kondo Akifumi, Chayama Kazuaki
Abstract excerpt
G to A hypermutation of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and retroviruses appears as a result of deamination activities of host APOBEC proteins and is thought to play a role in innate antiviral immunity. Alpha and gamma interferons (IFN-alpha and -gamma) have been reported to upregulate the transcription of APOBEC3G, which is known to reduce the replication of HBV. We investigated the number of hypermutated genomes under...
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