Nucleic acid immunity

G Hartmann - Advances in immunology, 2017 - Elsevier
Organisms throughout biology need to maintain the integrity of their genome. From bacteria
to vertebrates, life has established sophisticated mechanisms to detect and eliminate foreign …

Genetic interferonopathies: an overview

D Eleftheriou, PA Brogan - Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology, 2017 - Elsevier
Interferonopathies comprise an expanding group of monogenic diseases characterised by
disturbance of the homeostatic control of interferon (IFN)-mediated immune responses …

A G1‐like state allows HIV‐1 to bypass SAMHD 1 restriction in macrophages

P Mlcochova, KA Sutherland, SA Watters… - The EMBO …, 2017 - embopress.org
An unresolved question is how HIV‐1 achieves efficient replication in terminally
differentiated macrophages despite the restriction factor SAMHD 1. We reveal inducible …

[HTML][HTML] Substrates and Inhibitors of SAMHD1

JA Hollenbaugh, J Shelton, S Tao, S Amiralaei, P Liu… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
SAMHD1 hydrolyzes 2'-deoxynucleoside-5'-triphosphates (dNTPs) into 2'-deoxynucleosides
and inorganic triphosphate products. In this paper, we evaluated the impact of 2'sugar …

Roles of SAMHD1 in antiviral defense, autoimmunity and cancer

M Li, D Zhang, M Zhu, Y Shen, W Wei… - Reviews in Medical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The enzyme, sterile α motif and histidine‐aspartic acid domain–containing protein 1
(SAMHD1) diminishes infection of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV‐1) by …

CD81 association with SAMHD1 enhances HIV-1 reverse transcription by increasing dNTP levels

V Rocha-Perugini, H Suárez, S Álvarez… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
In this study, we report that the tetraspanin CD81 enhances human immunodeficiency virus
(HIV)-1 reverse transcription in HIV-1-infected cells. This is enabled by the direct interaction …

A SAMHD1 mutation associated with Aicardi–Goutières syndrome uncouples the ability of SAMHD1 to restrict HIV‐1 from its ability to downmodulate type I interferon …

TE White, A Brandariz‐Nuñez… - Human …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Mutations in the human SAMHD1 gene are known to correlate with the development of the
Aicardi–Goutières syndrome (AGS), which is an inflammatory encephalopathy that exhibits …

[HTML][HTML] The dynamic interplay between HIV-1, SAMHD1, and the innate antiviral response

JM Antonucci, C St. Gelais, L Wu - Frontiers in immunology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The innate immune response constitutes the first cellular line of defense against initial HIV-1
infection. Immune cells sense invading virus and trigger signaling cascades that induce …

Exogenous expression of SAMHD1 inhibits proliferation and induces apoptosis in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma-derived HuT78 cells

KM Kodigepalli, M Li, SL Liu, L Wu - Cell Cycle, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Sterile α motif and HD domain-containing protein 1 (SAMHD1) is a mammalian dNTP
hydrolase (dNTPase) that regulates intracellular dNTP balance. We have previously …

[HTML][HTML] A highly active isoform of lentivirus restriction factor SAMHD1 in mouse

N Bloch, S Gläsker, P Sitaram, H Hofmann… - Journal of Biological …, 2017 - ASBMB
The triphosphohydrolase SAMHD1 (sterile α motif and histidine-aspartate domain-
containing protein 1) restricts HIV-1 replication in nondividing myeloid cells by depleting the …