Multiple APOBEC3 restriction factors for HIV-1 and one Vif to rule them all

BA Desimmie, KA Delviks-Frankenberrry… - Journal of molecular …, 2014 - Elsevier
Several members of the APOBEC3 family of cellular restriction factors provide intrinsic
immunity to the host against viral infection. Specifically, APOBEC3DE, APOBEC3F …

Functions and malfunctions of mammalian DNA-cytosine deaminases

SU Siriwardena, K Chen, AS Bhagwat - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
The AID/APOBEC family enzymes convert cytosines in single-stranded DNA to uracils,
causing base substitutions and strand breaks. They are induced by cytokines produced …

APOBEC3A drives deaminase domain-independent chromosomal instability to promote pancreatic cancer metastasis

SM Wörmann, A Zhang, FI Thege, RW Cowan… - Nature Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Despite efforts in understanding its underlying mechanisms, the etiology of chromosomal
instability (CIN) remains unclear for many tumor types. Here, we identify CIN initiation as a …

Structural basis for HIV-1 antagonism of host APOBEC3G via Cullin E3 ligase

F Ito, AL Alvarez-Cabrera, S Liu, H Yang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Human APOBEC3G (A3G) is a virus restriction factor that inhibits HIV-1 replication and
triggers lethal hypermutation on viral reverse transcripts. HIV-1 viral infectivity factor (Vif) …

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 …

Suppression of APOBEC3-mediated restriction of HIV-1 by Vif

Y Feng, TT Baig, RP Love, L Chelico - Frontiers in microbiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The APOBEC3 restriction factors are a family of deoxycytidine deaminases that are able to
suppress replication of viruses with a single-stranded DNA intermediate by inducing …

The double-domain cytidine deaminase APOBEC3G is a cellular site-specific RNA editing enzyme

S Sharma, SK Patnaik, RT Taggart, BE Baysal - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
APOBEC3G is a cytidine deaminase with two homologous domains and restricts
retroelements and HIV-1. APOBEC3G deaminates single-stranded DNAs via its C-terminal …

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 …

Modeling the embrace of a mutator: APOBEC selection of nucleic acid ligands

JD Salter, HC Smith - Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2018 - cell.com
The 11-member APOBEC (apolipoprotein B mRNA editing catalytic polypeptide-like) family
of zinc-dependent cytidine deaminases bind to RNA and single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) and …

Structural basis of sequence-specific RNA recognition by the antiviral factor APOBEC3G

H Yang, K Kim, S Li, J Pacheco, XS Chen - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
An essential step in restricting HIV infectivity by the antiviral factor APOBEC3G is its
incorporation into progeny virions via binding to HIV RNA. However, the mechanism of …