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Hypermutation by intersegmental transfer of APOBEC3G cytidine deaminase.
Nature structural & molecular biology - 1 Oct 2008
Nowarski Roni, Britan-Rosich Elena, Shiloach Tamar, Kotler Moshe
Abstract excerpt
Deamination of cytidine residues in single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) is an important mechanism by which apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing, catalytic polypeptide-like (APOBEC) enzymes restrict endogenous and exogenous viruses. The dynamic process underlying APOBEC-induced hypermutation is not fully understood. Here we show that enzymatically active APOBEC3G can be detected in wild-type Vif(+) HIV-1 virions, albeit at low...
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