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ArticleJournal of virology2007

An active TRIM5 protein in rabbits indicates a common antiviral ancestor for mammalian TRIM5 proteins.

Torsten Schaller, Stéphane Hué, Greg J Towers

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Article in Journal of virology, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers.

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53 citing papers in PubMed, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. Apparent effect of rabbit endogenous lentivirus type K acquisition on retrovirus restriction by lagomorph Trim5αs.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2013
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Torsten SchallerMRC Centre for Medical Molecular Virology, Department of Infection, Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London, 46 Cleveland Street, London, United Kingdom.
Stéphane Hué
Greg J Towers
The Royal Free Hospital · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust 076608
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The recent identification of antiretroviral tripartite motif-bearing restriction factors that protect against retroviral infection has revealed a novel branch of innate immunity. The factors target the retroviral capsid and inhibit infectivity soon after the capsid has entered the cytoplasm by an incompletely characterized mechanism. Restriction is species specific. For example, TRIM5alpha from Old World monkeys, but not humans, restricts human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection. Here, we identify an antiviral TRIM5 molecule in rabbits that is closely related to antiviral TRIM5 of both primates and cattle. We demonstrate that the rabbit TRIM5 protein is active against divergent retroviruses and leads to a strong block to viral DNA synthesis and infectivity. Furthermore, we show that antiviral activity is directed against the viral capsid and that human TRIM5 proteins are dominant negative to restriction in rabbit cells. We propose that the sequence and restriction characteristics conserved between restriction factors from primates, cattle, and rabbits indicate that these factors have evolved from a common ancestor with antiretroviral properties.

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Amino Acid MotifsAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsAntiviral Restriction FactorsCarrier ProteinsCattleConserved SequenceDNAHIV InfectionsHumansMolecular Sequence DataPhylogenyPrimatesProtein IsoformsRabbitsSequence Homology, Amino AcidAntiviral Restriction FactorsCarrier ProteinsDNAProtein IsoformsTRIM5 protein, humanTripartite Motif ProteinsUbiquitin-Protein Ligases

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PMID17728224
PMCPMC2168759
OpenAlexW2128663713

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