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Human APOBEC3G-mediated editing can promote HIV-1 sequence diversification and accelerate adaptation to selective pressure.
Journal of virology - 1 Oct 2010
Kim Eun-Young, Bhattacharya Tanmoy, Kunstman Kevin, Swantek Peter, Koning Fransje A, Malim Michael H, Wolinsky Steven M
Abstract excerpt
Human apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing enzyme catalytic polypeptide-like 3G (APOBEC3G, hereinafter referred to as A3G) is an innate virus restriction factor that inhibits human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) replication and induces excessive deamination of cytidine residues in nascent reverse transcripts. To test the hypothesis that this enzyme can also help generate viral sequence diversification and the...
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