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ArticlePloS one2012

Studies on the restriction of murine leukemia viruses by mouse APOBEC3.

Silvia Sanchez-Martinez, Amanda L Aloia, Demetria Harvin, Jane Mirro, Robert J Gorelick, Patric Jern, John M Coffin, Alan Rein

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Article in PloS one, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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21 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Silvia Sanchez-MartinezHIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America.
Amanda L Aloia
Demetria Harvin
Jane Mirro
Robert J Gorelick
Patric Jern
John M Coffin
Alan Rein
Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research · USNational Cancer Institute · USScience for Life Laboratory · SETufts University · US

Funding

Retrovirus EvolutionR37CA089441 · NCI · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI COFFIN, JOHN M · 2006 to 2015
$6.5M
Interactions of APOBEC3 Proteins with Murine Leukemia VirusesZIABC010773 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI REIN, ALAN · 2009 to 2018
$1.9M
CCR NIH HHS HHSN261200800001CIntramural NIH HHSNCI NIH HHS HHSN261200800001ENCI NIH HHS R37 CA089441
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

APOBEC3 proteins function to restrict the replication of retroviruses. One mechanism of this restriction is deamination of cytidines to uridines in (-) strand DNA, resulting in hypermutation of guanosines to adenosines in viral (+) strands. However, Moloney murine leukemia virus (MoMLV) is partially resistant to restriction by mouse APOBEC3 (mA3) and virtually completely resistant to mA3-induced hypermutation. In contrast, the sequences of MLV genomes that are in mouse DNA suggest that they were susceptible to mA3-induced deamination when they infected the mouse germline. We tested the possibility that sensitivity to mA3 restriction and to deamination resides in the viral gag gene. We generated a chimeric MLV in which the gag gene was from an endogenous MLV in the mouse germline, while the remainder of the viral genome was from MoMLV. This chimera was fully infectious but its response to mA3 was indistinguishable from that of MoMLV. Thus, the Gag protein does not seem to control the sensitivity of MLVs to mA3. We also found that MLVs inactivated by mA3 do not synthesize viral DNA upon infection; thus mA3 restriction of MLV occurs before or at reverse transcription. In contrast, HIV-1 restricted by mA3 and MLVs restricted by human APOBEC3G do synthesize DNA; these DNAs exhibit APOBEC3-induced hypermutation.

Indexed as

Virus ReplicationAnimalsBase SequenceCytidine DeaminaseDNA, ViralGene Products, gagHumansHybridization, GeneticLeukemia Virus, MurineMiceMoloney murine leukemia virusTransfectionApobec3 protein, mouseCytidine DeaminaseDNA, ViralGene Products, gag

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PMID22666481
PMCPMC3362552
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