SAMHD1

SAM domain and HD domain-containing protein 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SAMHD1 gene. SAMHD1 is a cellular enzyme, responsible for blocking replication of HIV in dendritic cells, macrophages, monocytes and resting CD4+ T lymphocytes. It is an enzyme that exhibits phosphohydrolase activity, converting deoxynucleoside triphosphates (dNTPs) to inorganic phosphate (iPPP) and a 2'-deoxynucleoside (i.e. deoxynucleosides without a phosphate group). In doing so, SAMHD1 depletes the pool of dNTPs available to a reverse transcriptase for viral cDNA synthesis and thus prevents viral replication. SAMHD1 has also shown nuclease activity. Although a ribonuclease activity was described to be required for HIV-1 restriction, recent data confirmed that SAMHD1-mediated HIV-1 restriction in cells does not involve ribonuclease activity.

SAMHD1
Available structures
PDBOrtholog search: PDBe RCSB
Identifiers
AliasesSAMHD1, CHBL2, DCIP, HDDC1, MOP-5, SBBI88, SAM and HD domain containing deoxynucleoside triphosphate triphosphohydrolase 1, hSAMHD1
External IDsOMIM: 606754 MGI: 1927468 HomoloGene: 9160 GeneCards: SAMHD1
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez

25939

56045

Ensembl

ENSG00000101347

ENSMUSG00000027639

UniProt

Q9Y3Z3

Q60710

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_015474
NM_001363729
NM_001363733

NM_001139520
NM_018851
NM_001370610

RefSeq (protein)

NP_056289
NP_001350658
NP_001350662

NP_001132992
NP_061339
NP_001357539

Location (UCSC)Chr 20: 36.89 – 36.95 MbChr 2: 156.94 – 156.98 Mb
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