APOBEC4
Identifiers
AliasesAPOBEC4, C1orf169, apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme catalytic polypeptide like 4
External IDsOMIM: 609908 MGI: 1918531 HomoloGene: 52415 GeneCards: APOBEC4
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez

403314

71281

Ensembl

ENSG00000173627

ENSMUSG00000055547

UniProt

Q8WW27

n/a

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_203454

NM_001081197

RefSeq (protein)

NP_982279

n/a

Location (UCSC)Chr 1: 183.65 – 183.65 MbChr 1: 152.63 – 152.63 Mb
PubMed search[3][4]
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C->U-editing enzyme APOBEC-4, also known as Apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing enzyme catalytic polypeptide-like 4, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the APOBEC4 gene. It is primarily expressed in testis and found in mammals, chicken, but not fishes.[5][6]

Function

This gene encodes a member of the AID / APOBEC family of polynucleotide (deoxy)cytidine deaminases, which convert cytidine to uridine. Other AID/APOBEC family members are involved in mRNA editing, somatic hypermutation and recombination of immunoglobulin genes, and innate immunity to retroviral infection.[6]

A recent study on APOBEC4 (A4) revealed an interesting finding that A4 enhanced the replication of HIV-1 through boosting promoter activity, it also increased the expression of other relevant promoter mediated enhanced protein expression. Biochemical analysis of A4 showed the lack of cytidine deaminase activity on single stranded DNA and it binds DNA rather weak.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000173627 - Ensembl, May 2017
  2. 1 2 3 GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000055547 - Ensembl, May 2017
  3. ↑ "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  4. ↑ "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  5. ↑ Rogozin IB, Basu MK, Jordan IK, Pavlov YI, Koonin EV (September 2005). "APOBEC4, a new member of the AID/APOBEC family of polynucleotide (deoxy)cytidine deaminases predicted by computational analysis". Cell Cycle. 4 (9): 1281–5. doi:10.4161/cc.4.9.1994. PMID 16082223.
  6. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme".
  7. ↑ Marino D, Perković M, Hain A, Jaguva Vasudevan AA, Hofmann H, Hanschmann KM, Mühlebach MD, Schumann GG, König R, Cichutek K, Häussinger D, Münk C (2016). "APOBEC4 Enhances the Replication of HIV-1". PLOS ONE. 11 (6): e0155422. Bibcode:2016PLoSO..1155422M. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0155422. PMC 4889046. PMID 27249646.

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