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APOBEC3F is the main source of editing identified during the 2022 outbreak of human monkeypox virus
2023-01-07
Abstract excerpt
On May 6, 2022, a powerful outbreak of monkeypox virus (MPXV) had been reported outside of Africa, with many continuing new cases being reported around the world. Analysis of mutations among the two different lineages present in the 2021 and 2022 outbreaks revealed the presence of G->A mutations occurring in the 5’GpA context, indicative of APOBEC3 cytosine deaminase activity. By using a sensitive PCR (3D-PCR) met...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 905f62af-548c-5241-9b09-682b378207e6
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.01.06.522979
