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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

Positive selection in dNTPase SAMHD1 throughout mammalian evolution.

Christopher Monit, Elizabeth R Morris, Christopher Ruis, Bart Szafran, Grant Thiltgen, Ming-Han Chloe Tsai, N Avrion Mitchison, Kate N Bishop, Jonathan P Stoye, Ian A Taylor and 2 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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14citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Christopher MonitDivision of Infection and Immunity, University College London, WC1E 6BT London, United Kingdom.
Elizabeth R MorrisMacromolecular Structure Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, NW1 1AT London, United Kingdom.
Christopher RuisDivision of Infection and Immunity, University College London, WC1E 6BT London, United Kingdom.
Bart SzafranRetrovirus-Host Interactions Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, NW1 1AT London, United Kingdom.
Grant ThiltgenDivision of Infection and Immunity, University College London, WC1E 6BT London, United Kingdom.
Ming-Han Chloe TsaiRetroviral Replication Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, NW1 1AT London, United Kingdom.
N Avrion MitchisonDivision of Infection and Immunity, University College London, WC1E 6BT London, United Kingdom.
Kate N BishopRetroviral Replication Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, NW1 1AT London, United Kingdom.
Jonathan P StoyeRetrovirus-Host Interactions Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, NW1 1AT London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-3377-323X
Ian A TaylorMacromolecular Structure Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, NW1 1AT London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-6763-3852
Ariberto FassatiDivision of Infection and Immunity, University College London, WC1E 6BT London, United Kingdom; a.fassati@ucl.ac.uk r.goldstein@ucl.ac.uk.
Richard A GoldsteinDivision of Infection and Immunity, University College London, WC1E 6BT London, United Kingdom; a.fassati@ucl.ac.uk r.goldstein@ucl.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-5148-4672
The Francis Crick Institute · GBUniversity College London · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/P007562/1Cancer Research UKMedical Research Council G0900950Medical Research Council MC_PC_13056Medical Research Council MC_U117512710Medical Research Council MC_U117573805Medical Research Council MC_U117592729Wellcome Trust 108012/Z/15/ZWellcome Trust 108014/Z/15/ZWellcome Trust FC001042Wellcome Trust FC001162Wellcome Trust FC001178
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The vertebrate protein SAMHD1 is highly unusual in having roles in cellular metabolic regulation, antiviral restriction, and regulation of innate immunity. Its deoxynucleoside triphosphohydrolase activity regulates cellular dNTP concentration, reducing levels below those required by lentiviruses and other viruses to replicate. To counter this threat, some primate lentiviruses encode accessory proteins that bind SAMHD1 and induce its degradation; in turn, positive diversifying selection has been observed in regions bound by these lentiviral proteins, suggesting that primate SAMHD1 has coevolved to evade these countermeasures. Moreover, deleterious polymorphisms in human

Indexed as

Evolution, MolecularSelection, GeneticAnimalsBiological CoevolutionHIV-1Host-Pathogen InteractionsHumansImmunity, InnateModels, GeneticMutationPhosphorylationProtein BindingSAM Domain and HD Domain-Containing Protein 1TyrosineViral Regulatory and Accessory ProteinsVirus ReplicationSAM Domain and HD Domain-Containing Protein 1TyrosineViral Regulatory and Accessory Proteinsvpr Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency VirusevolutionHIV-1mammalsrestrictionSAMHD1

Identifiers

PMID31451672
PMCPMC6744909
OpenAlexW2970918561

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