Human APOBEC3 variations and viral infection

S Sadeghpour, S Khodaee, M Rahnama, H Rahimi… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Human APOBEC3 (apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing catalytic polypeptide-like 3) enzymes
are capable of inhibiting a wide range of endogenous and exogenous viruses using …

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 …

APOBEC3B drives PKR-mediated translation shutdown and protects stress granules in response to viral infection

L Manjunath, S Oh, P Ortega, A Bouin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Double-stranded RNA produced during viral replication and transcription activates both
protein kinase R (PKR) and ribonuclease L (RNase L), which limits viral gene expression …

The cytidine deaminase APOBEC3G contributes to cancer mutagenesis and clonal evolution in bladder cancer

W Liu, KP Newhall, F Khani, LM Barlow, D Nguyen… - Cancer Research, 2023 - AACR
Mutagenic processes leave distinct signatures in cancer genomes. The mutational
signatures attributed to APOBEC3 cytidine deaminases are pervasive in human cancers …

Mechanistic insight into antiretroviral potency of 2′-deoxy-2′-β-fluoro-4′-azidocytidine (FNC) with a long-lasting effect on HIV-1 prevention

L Sun, Y Peng, W Yu, Y Zhang, L Liang… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
In preclinical and phase I and II clinical studies, 2′-deoxy-2′-β-fluoro-4′-azidocytidine
(FNC) displays a potent and long-lasting inhibition of HIV-1 infection. To investigate its …

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 …

Structure of the catalytically active APOBEC3G bound to a DNA oligonucleotide inhibitor reveals tetrahedral geometry of the transition state

A Maiti, AK Hedger, W Myint, V Balachandran… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract APOBEC3 proteins (A3s) are enzymes that catalyze the deamination of cytidine to
uridine in single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) substrates, thus playing a key role in innate antiviral …

Examination of the APOBEC3 barrier to cross species transmission of primate lentiviruses

A Gaba, B Flath, L Chelico - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
The transmission of viruses from animal hosts into humans have led to the emergence of
several diseases. Usually these cross-species transmissions are blocked by host restriction …

Stability of APOBEC3F in the presence of the APOBEC3 antagonist HIV-1 vif increases at the expense of co-expressed APOBEC3H haplotype I

M Yousefi, AK Annan Sudarsan, A Gaba, L Chelico - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
The seven human APOBEC3 enzymes (APOBEC3A through H, excluding E) are host
restriction factors. Most of the APOBEC3 enzymes can restrict HIV-1 replication with different …

Small-Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) Measurements of APOBEC3G Provide Structural Basis for Binding of Single-Stranded DNA and Processivity

FM Barzak, TM Ryan, N Mohammadzadeh, S Harjes… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
APOBEC3 enzymes are polynucleotide deaminases, converting cytosine to uracil on single-
stranded DNA (ssDNA) and RNA as part of the innate immune response against viruses and …