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Mouse SAMHD1 Has Antiretroviral Activity and Suppresses a Spontaneous Cell-Intrinsic Antiviral Response.
Behrendt, Rayk Schumann, Tina Gerbaulet, Alexander Nguyen, Laura A Schubert, Nadja Alexopoulou, Dimitra Berka, Ursula Lienenklaus, Stefan Peschke, Katrin Gibbert, Kathrin
Behrendt, Rayk
Schumann, Tina
Gerbaulet, Alexander
Nguyen, Laura A
Schubert, Nadja
Alexopoulou, Dimitra
Berka, Ursula
Lienenklaus, Stefan
Peschke, Katrin
Gibbert, Kathrin
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2013-08-29
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Aicardi-Goutières syndrome (AGS), a hereditary autoimmune disease, clinically and biochemically overlaps with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and, like SLE, is characterized by spontaneous type I interferon (IFN) production. The finding that defects of intracellular nucleases cause AGS led to the concept that intracellular accumulation of nucleic acids triggers inappropriate production of type I IFN and autoimmunity. AGS can also be caused by defects of SAMHD1, a 3' exonuclease and deoxynucleotide (dNTP) triphosphohydrolase. Human SAMHD1 is an HIV-1 restriction factor that hydrolyzes dNTPs and decreases their concentration below the levels required for retroviral reverse transcription. We show in gene-targeted mice that also mouse SAMHD1 reduces cellular dNTP concentrations and restricts retroviral replication in lymphocytes, macrophages, and dendritic cells. Importantly, the absence of SAMHD1 triggered IFN-β-dependent transcriptional upregulation of type I IFN-inducible genes in various cell types indicative of spontaneous IFN production. SAMHD1-deficient mice may be instrumental for elucidating the mechanisms that trigger pathogenic type I IFN responses in AGS and SLE.
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Mouse SAMHD1 Has Antiretroviral Activity and Suppresses a Spontaneous Cell-Intrinsic Antiviral Response. 2013, 4 (4):689-96 Cell Rep
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