The current toolbox for APOBEC drug discovery

MJ Grillo, KFM Jones, MA Carpenter, RS Harris… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
Mutational processes driving genome evolution and heterogeneity contribute to immune
evasion and therapy resistance in viral infections and cancer. APOBEC3 (A3) enzymes …

The interesting relationship between APOBEC3 deoxycytidine deaminases and cancer: a long road ahead

M Granadillo Rodriguez, B Flath… - Open Biology, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Cancer is considered a group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled growth and spread
of abnormal cells and is propelled by somatic mutations. Apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing …

Competition for DNA binding between the genome protector replication protein A and the genome modifying APOBEC3 single-stranded DNA deaminases

L Wong, A Sami, L Chelico - Nucleic Acids Research, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The human APOBEC family of eleven cytosine deaminases use RNA and single-stranded
DNA (ssDNA) as substrates to deaminate cytosine to uracil. This deamination event has …

Deamination hotspots among APOBEC3 family members are defined by both target site sequence context and ssDNA secondary structure

YZ McDaniel, D Wang, RP Love… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The human apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide-like 3 (APOBEC3,
A3) family member proteins can deaminate cytosines in single-strand (ss) DNA, which …

Enzyme cycling contributes to efficient induction of genome mutagenesis by the cytidine deaminase APOBEC3B

MB Adolph, RP Love, Y Feng… - Nucleic acids research, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The single-stranded DNA cytidine deaminases APOBEC3B, APOBEC3H haplotype I, and
APOBEC3A can contribute to cancer through deamination of cytosine to form promutagenic …

A single nucleotide polymorphism in human APOBEC3C enhances restriction of lentiviruses

CJ Wittkopp, MB Adolph, LI Wu, L Chelico… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Humans express seven human APOBEC3 proteins, which can inhibit viruses and
endogenous retroelements through cytidine deaminase activity. The seven paralogs differ in …

Mutational impact of APOBEC3A and APOBEC3B in a human cell line and comparisons to breast cancer

MA Carpenter, NA Temiz, MA Ibrahim, MC Jarvis… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
A prominent source of mutation in cancer is single-stranded DNA cytosine deamination by
cellular APOBEC3 enzymes, which results in signature C-to-T and C-to-G mutations in TCA …

Nuclear magnetic resonance structure of the APOBEC3B catalytic domain: structural basis for substrate binding and DNA deaminase activity

IJL Byeon, CH Byeon, T Wu, M Mitra, D Singer… - Biochemistry, 2016 - ACS Publications
Human APOBEC3B (A3B) is a member of the APOBEC3 (A3) family of cytidine deaminases,
which function as DNA mutators and restrict viral pathogens and endogenous …

APOBEC3H structure reveals an unusual mechanism of interaction with duplex RNA

JA Bohn, K Thummar, A York, A Raymond… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The APOBEC3 family of cytidine deaminases cause lethal hypermutation of retroviruses via
deamination of newly reverse-transcribed viral DNA. Their ability to bind RNA is essential for …

Protein interaction map of APOBEC3 enzyme family reveals deamination-independent role in cellular function

GM Jang, AKA Sudarsan, A Shayeganmehr… - Molecular & Cellular …, 2024 - ASBMB
Human APOBEC3 enzymes are a family of single-stranded (ss) DNA and RNA cytidine
deaminases that act as part of the intrinsic immunity against viruses and retroelements …