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By increasing the rate at which deleterious mutations appear, APOBEC3G pushes viruses over this edge, causing a form of ‘lethal mutagenesis’ that results in their destruction; the rate of mutation becomes so high that no genome can reproduce itself faithfully, and the population crashes.
Two more enzymes, APOBEC3G and APOBEC3F, form part of the innate immune system; they function as antiviral agents and are being intensively studied in the context of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the cause of AIDS.
APOBEC3G-induced deamination at this stage results in monotonous guanine-to-adenine (G→A) nucleotide changes, a phenomenon called G→A hypermutation that had long been noted by HIV researchers without a clear understanding of its cause.
Hence, it is probably only in naturally occurring Vif-defective mutants that APOBEC3G is effective against HIV.
Lentiviruses like HIV possess a gene that encodes an protein called Vif (‘viral infectivity factor’) that counters APOBEC3G (Sheehy et al.