Turning up the volume on mutational pressure: Is more of a good thing always better? (A case study of HIV-1 Vif and APOBEC3)

<p>Abstract</p> <p>APOBEC3G and APOBEC3F are human cytidine deaminases that serve as innate antiviral defense mechanisms primarily by introducing C-to-U changes in the minus strand DNA of retroviruses during replication (resulting in G-to-A mutations in the genomic sense strand seq...

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Main Authors: Wong Joseph K, Pillai Satish K, Barbour Jason D
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-03-01
Series:Retrovirology
Online Access:http://www.retrovirology.com/content/5/1/26