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Cytidine deamination induced HIV-1 drug resistance.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 8 Apr 2008
Mulder Lubbertus C F, Harari Ariana, Simon Viviana
Abstract excerpt
The HIV-1 Vif protein is essential for overcoming the antiviral activity of DNA-editing apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide 3 (APOBEC3) cytidine deaminases. We show that naturally occurring HIV-1 Vif point mutants with suboptimal anti-APOBEC3G activity induce the appearance of proviruses with lamivudine (3TC) drug resistance-associated mutations before any drug exposure. These mutations,...
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