AUTHOR=Chen Yan , Luo Lingjie , Deng Lisi , Tian Xiaoxue , Chen Shangwu , Xu Anlong , Yuan Shaochun TITLE=New Insights Into the Lineage-Specific Expansion and Functional Diversification of Lamprey AID/APOBEC Family JOURNAL=Frontiers in Immunology VOLUME=13 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2022.822616 DOI=10.3389/fimmu.2022.822616 ISSN=1664-3224 ABSTRACT=
The AID/APOBEC family which converts cytidine to uridine on RNA or DNA experienced dynamic expansion in primates in order to resist exogenous viruses and endogenous retrotransposons. Recently, expansion of AID/APOBEC-like homologs has also been observed in the extant jawless vertebrate lamprey. To reveal what causes such expansion and leads to the functional diversification of lamprey cytosine deaminases (CDAs), we reassessed the