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@ARTICLE{Nchioua:277882,
author = {Nchioua, Rayhane and Kmiec, Dorota and Krchlikova, Veronika
and Mattes, Sarah and Noettger, Sabrina and Bibollet-Ruche,
Frederic and Russell, Ronnie M and Sparrer, Konstantin M J
and Charpentier, Thomas and Tardy, Frédéric and Bosinger,
Steven E and Sauter, Daniel and Hahn, Beatrice H and
Kirchhoff, Frank},
title = {{H}ost {ZAP} activity correlates with the levels of {C}p{G}
suppression in primate lentiviruses.},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the
United States of America},
volume = {122},
number = {15},
issn = {0027-8424},
address = {Washington, DC},
publisher = {National Acad. of Sciences},
reportid = {DZNE-2025-00502},
pages = {e2419489122},
year = {2025},
abstract = {Zinc-finger antiviral protein (ZAP) is thought to drive the
suppression of CpG dinucleotides in many viruses to mimic
the composition of their host genomes. However, in vivo
evidence is sparse. Here, we investigated the reasons for
unusually high CpG levels in SIVmus and SIVmon from
mustached and mona monkeys, descendants of one of the
precursors of HIV-1. We show that SIVmus is not resistant to
ZAP inhibition. Instead, these Cercopithecus monkey hosts
differ from other primate species by a splice site mutation
and express the poorly active extralarge XL rather than the
highly active L isoform of ZAP. Similarly, higher CpG levels
in endogenous prosimian lentiviruses were associated with
low activity of the corresponding host lemur ZAPs. In
addition, lemur genes also show lower CpG suppression than
other primates. Thus, the antiviral activity of ZAP not only
affects suppression of CpG dinucleotides in viral
transcripts but possibly also host genomes.},
keywords = {Animals / Humans / Dinucleoside Phosphates: metabolism /
Dinucleoside Phosphates: genetics / Lentiviruses, Primate:
genetics / Lentiviruses, Primate: metabolism / RNA-Binding
Proteins: metabolism / RNA-Binding Proteins: genetics /
Simian Immunodeficiency Virus: genetics / CpG Islands:
genetics / HIV-1: genetics / CpG suppression (Other) /
primate lentiviruses (Other) / virus-host arms race (Other)
/ zinc-finger antiviral protein (Other) / Dinucleoside
Phosphates (NLM Chemicals) / RNA-Binding Proteins (NLM
Chemicals) / cytidylyl-3'-5'-guanosine (NLM Chemicals) /
ZC3HAV1 protein, human (NLM Chemicals)},
cin = {AG Sparrer},
ddc = {500},
cid = {I:(DE-2719)1910003},
pnm = {351 - Brain Function (POF4-351)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-351},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:40178887},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.2419489122},
url = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/277882},
}