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Noninfectious retrovirus particles drive the APOBEC3/Rfv3 dependent neutralizing antibody response.
PLoS pathogens - 1 Oct 2011
Smith Diana S, Guo Kejun, Barrett Bradley S, Heilman Karl J, Evans Leonard H, Hasenkrug Kim J, Greene Warner C, Santiago Mario L
Abstract excerpt
Members of the APOBEC3 family of deoxycytidine deaminases counteract a broad range of retroviruses in vitro through an indirect mechanism that requires virion incorporation and inhibition of reverse transcription and/or hypermutation of minus strand transcripts in the next target cell. The selective advantage to the host of this indirect restriction mechanism remains unclear, but valuable insights may be gained...
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