Publication Date:
2004-08-03
Description:
Retroviral DNA can be subjected to cytosine-to-uracil editing through the action of members of the APOBEC family of cytidine deaminases. Here we demonstrate that APOBEC-mediated cytidine deamination of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) virion RNA can also occur. We speculate that the natural substrates of the APOBEC enzymes may extend to RNA viruses that do not replicate through DNA intermediates. Thus, cytosine-to-uracil editing may contribute to the sequence diversification of many viruses.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bishop, Kate N -- Holmes, Rebecca K -- Sheehy, Ann M -- Malim, Michael H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2004 Jul 30;305(5684):645.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Infectious Diseases, Guy's, King's and St. Thomas' School of Medicine, King's College London, London, SE1 9RT, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15286366" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Cell Line
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Cytidine Deaminase/*metabolism
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DNA, Complementary/metabolism
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Genes, nef
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Genetic Variation
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HIV Long Terminal Repeat
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HIV-1/*genetics
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Humans
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Mutation
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Nucleoside Deaminases
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Polymerase Chain Reaction
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Proteins/*metabolism
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*RNA Editing
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RNA, Viral/*metabolism
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Rats
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Repressor Proteins
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Transfection
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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