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SUBMITTER: Landry S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3090015 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Landry Sébastien S Narvaiza Iñigo I Linfesty Daniel C DC Weitzman Matthew D MD
EMBO reports 20110401 5
Human apolipoprotein-B mRNA-editing catalytic polypeptide-like 3 (APOBEC3) proteins constitute a family of cytidine deaminases that mediate restriction of retroviruses, endogenous retro-elements and DNA viruses. It is well established that these enzymes are potent mutators of viral DNA, but it is unclear whether their editing activity is a threat to the integrity of the cellular genome. We show that expression of APOBEC3A can lead to induction of DNA breaks and activation of damage responses in ...[more]