SARS-CoV-2 and innate immunity: the good, the bad, and the “goldilocks”

BL Sievers, MTK Cheng, K Csiba, B Meng… - Cellular & Molecular …, 2024 - nature.com
An ancient conflict between hosts and pathogens has driven the innate and adaptive arms of
immunity. Knowledge about this interplay can not only help us identify biological …

The role of APOBEC3B in lung tumor evolution and targeted cancer therapy resistance

DR Caswell, P Gui, MK Mayekar, EK Law, O Pich… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
In this study, the impact of the apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing catalytic subunit-like
(APOBEC) enzyme APOBEC3B (A3B) on epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-driven …

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 …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] APOBECs orchestrate genomic and epigenomic editing across health and disease

K Cervantes-Gracia, A Gramalla-Schmitz… - Trends in Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
APOBEC proteins can deaminate cytosine residues in DNA and RNA. This can lead to
somatic mutations, DNA breaks, RNA modifications, or DNA demethylation in a selective …

Nanocomposites based on polylactide and silver nanoparticles and their antimicrobial and antiviral applications

V Demchenko, S Kobylinskyi, M Iurzhenko… - Reactive and Functional …, 2022 - Elsevier
Novel antimicrobial and antiviral silver-containing nanocomposites (PLA-Ag-PEI) based on
polylactide (PLA) have been created by the thermochemical reduction of Ag+ ions in the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Restriction factors regulating human herpesvirus infections

MC Serrero, SR Paludan - Trends in Immunology, 2024 - cell.com
Herpesviruses are DNA viruses and the cause of diseases ranging from mild skin conditions
to severe brain diseases. Mammalian antiviral host defense comprises an array of …