J Paulo Lorenzo, Linda Molla, Elias Moris Amro, Ignacio L Ibarra, Sandra Ruf, Cedrik Neber, Christos Gkougkousis, Jana Ridani, Poorani Ganesh Subramani, Jonathan Boulais, Dewi Harjanto, Alin Vonica, Javier M Di Noia, Christoph Dieterich, Judith B Zaugg, F Nina Papavasiliou
The apolipoprotein B messenger RNA editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide (APOBEC) family is composed of nucleic acid editors with roles ranging from antibody diversification to RNA editing. APOBEC2, a member of this family with an evolutionarily conserved nucleic acid-binding cytidine deaminase domain, has neither an established substrate nor function. Using a cellular model of muscle differentiation where APOBEC2 is inducibly expressed, we confirmed that APOBEC2 does not have the attributed molecular functions of the APOBEC family, such as RNA editing, DNA demethylation, and DNA mutation...
April 23, 2024: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America