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 role of APOBECs in viral replication

WK Xu, H Byun, JP Dudley - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
Apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing enzyme catalytic polypeptide-like (APOBEC) proteins are a
diverse and evolutionarily conserved family of cytidine deaminases that provide a variety of …

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 …

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 …

APOBEC3 degradation is the primary function of HIV-1 Vif determining virion infectivity in the myeloid cell line THP-1

T Ikeda, R Shimizu, H Nasser, MA Carpenter… - Mbio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT HIV-1 must overcome multiple innate antiviral mechanisms to replicate in CD4+
T lymphocytes and macrophages. Previous studies have demonstrated that the …

Dendritic cells, the double agent in the war against HIV-1

A Martín-Moreno, MA Muñoz-Fernández - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infects cells from the immune system and has thus
developed tools to circumvent the host immunity and use it in its advance. Dendritic cells …

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 …

Structural insights into APOBEC3-mediated lentiviral restriction

KA Delviks-Frankenberry, BA Desimmie, VK Pathak - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
Mammals have developed clever adaptive and innate immune defense mechanisms to
protect against invading bacterial and viral pathogens. Human innate immunity is …

Cytidine deaminase efficiency of the lentiviral viral restriction factor APOBEC3C correlates with dimerization

MB Adolph, A Ara, Y Feng, CJ Wittkopp… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The seven APOBEC3 (A3) enzymes in primates restrict HIV/SIV replication to
differing degrees by deaminating cytosine in viral (−) DNA, which forms promutagenic …

Biochemical basis of APOBEC3 deoxycytidine deaminase activity on diverse DNA substrates

MB Adolph, RP Love, L Chelico - ACS infectious diseases, 2018 - ACS Publications
The Apolipoprotein B mRNA editing complex (APOBEC) family of enzymes contains single-
stranded polynucleotide cytidine deaminases. These enzymes catalyze the deamination of …