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Creation of chimeric human/rabbit APOBEC1 with HIV-1 restriction and DNA mutation activities.
Scientific reports - 7 Jan 2016
Ikeda Terumasa, Ong Eugene Boon Beng, Watanabe Nobumoto, Sakaguchi Nobuo, Maeda Kazuhiko, Koito Atsushi
Abstract excerpt
APOBEC1 (A1) proteins from lagomorphs and rodents have deaminase-dependent restriction activity against HIV-1, whereas human A1 exerts a negligible effect. To investigate these differences in the restriction of HIV-1 by A1 proteins, a series of chimeric proteins combining rabbit and human A1s was constructed. Homology models of the A1s indicated that their activities derive from functional domains that likely act...
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