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Lentiviruses like HIV possess a gene that encodes an protein called Vif (‘viral infectivity factor’) that counters APOBEC3G (Sheehy et al.
Furthermore, because positive selection on APOBEC3G has operated for at least 30 million years and lentiviruses in general, and HIV in particular, are likely to be more recently evolved than this, it is clear that a broad range of retroviral pathogens have been responsible for the adaptive evolution of this particular immune gene (Sawyer et al.
Unlike simpler oncoviruses that rely exclusively on host cell machinery, lentiviruses code for additional accessory and regulatory proteins that act as molecular switches at different stages of viral entry and exit from the infected cell.