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American Society for Microbiology, Journal of Virology, 23(84), p. 12463-12468, 2010

DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01514-10

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Hare TRIM5α restricts divergent retroviruses and exhibits significant sequence variation from closely related lagomorpha TRIM5 genes.

Journal article published in 2010 by Aj Fletcher ORCID, Stéphane Hue ORCID, Torsten Schaller ORCID, Deenan Pillay, Gj Towers ORCID
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Abstract

ABSTRACT TRIM5α proteins recruit and restrict incoming cytoplasmic retroviruses. Primate TRIM5α sequence diversity underlies species-specific restriction and is likely caused by selective pressure from ancient pathogenic infections. Here we show that TRIM5α from the European brown hare restricts diverse retroviruses. Furthermore, it differs significantly in sequence from TRIM5α from the closely related rabbit, suggesting evolutionary changes in the last 12 million years since these species diverged. We propose that, like primates, lagomorphs have been subject to selective pressure from TRIM5-sensitive viruses, possibly related to the endogenous lentivirus RELIK found in both rabbits and hares.