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A new activity for SAMHD1 in HIV restriction

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Restriction factors are host cell proteins that inhibit retroviral infection. A new study using mutants of human HIV-1 restriction factor SAMHD1 suggests that it inhibits infection through degradation of viral RNA rather than through its dNTPase activity as previously suggested.

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Figure 1: SAMHD1 is a host restriction factor that blocks reverse transcription of HIV in nondividing cells, including macrophages, dendritic cells and resting CD4+ T cells.

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  1. Zhiyuan Yang and Warner C. Greene are at the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology and the University of California–San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.,

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Yang, Z., Greene, W. A new activity for SAMHD1 in HIV restriction. Nat Med 20, 808–809 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.3657

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