Mutational resilience of antiviral restriction favors primate TRIM5α in host-virus evolutionary arms races
J. Tenthorey, C. Young, A. Sodeinde, M. Emerman, H. S. Malik
The paper uses deep mutational scanning to assess how mutations in the TRIM5 v1 loop affect retroviral restriction, finding that most mutations enhance or preserve antiviral function.
bioRxiv · Jun 12, 2020Evolutionary Biology