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Opossum APOBEC1 is a DNA mutator with retrovirus and retroelement restriction activity.
Scientific reports - 21 Apr 2017
Ikeda Terumasa, Shimoda Mayuko, Ebrahimi Diako, VandeBerg John L, Harris Reuben S, Koito Atsushi, Maeda Kazuhiko
Abstract excerpt
APOBEC3s (A3s) are single-stranded DNA cytosine deaminases that provide innate immune defences against retroviruses and mobile elements. A3s are specific to eutherian mammals because no direct homologs exist at the syntenic genomic locus in metatherian (marsupial) or prototherian (monotreme) mammals. However, the A3s in these species have the likely evolutionary precursors, the antibody gene deaminase AID and the...
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