The APOBEC protein family: united by structure, divergent in function

JD Salter, RP Bennett, HC Smith - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2016 - cell.com
The APOBEC (apolipoprotein B mRNA editing catalytic polypeptide-like) family of proteins
have diverse and important functions in human health and disease. These proteins have an …

Key viral adaptations preceding the AIDS pandemic

D Sauter, F Kirchhoff - Cell host & microbe, 2019 - cell.com
HIV, the causative agent of AIDS, has a complex evolutionary history involving several cross-
species transmissions and recombination events as well as changes in the repertoire and …

[HTML][HTML] The structural basis for HIV-1 Vif antagonism of human APOBEC3G

YL Li, CA Langley, CM Azumaya, I Echeverria… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The APOBEC3 (A3) proteins are host antiviral cellular proteins that hypermutate the
viral genome of diverse viral families. In retroviruses, this process requires A3 packaging …

Origin of the HIV-1 group O epidemic in western lowland gorillas

M D'arc, A Ayouba, A Esteban… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
HIV-1, the cause of AIDS, is composed of four phylogenetic lineages, groups M, N, O, and P,
each of which resulted from an independent cross-species transmission event of simian …

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 …

Temporal proteomic analysis of HIV infection reveals remodelling of the host phosphoproteome by lentiviral Vif variants

EJD Greenwood, NJ Matheson, K Wals… - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
Viruses manipulate host factors to enhance their replication and evade cellular restriction.
We used multiplex tandem mass tag (TMT)-based whole cell proteomics to perform a …

Identification of the HIV-1 Vif and human APOBEC3G protein interface

M Letko, T Booiman, N Kootstra, V Simon, M Ooms - Cell reports, 2015 - cell.com
Human cells express natural antiviral proteins, such as APOBEC3G (A3G), that potently
restrict HIV replication. As a counter-defense, HIV encodes the accessory protein Vif, which …

Structure-guided analysis of the human APOBEC3-HIV restrictome

H Aydin, MW Taylor, JE Lee - Structure, 2014 - cell.com
Human APOBEC3 (A3) proteins are host-encoded intrinsic restriction factors that inhibit the
replication of many retroviral pathogens. Restriction is believed to occur as a result of the …

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 …

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 …