“…Particularly, the ubiquitin dependent degradation pathway is one of the attractive machineries manipulated by multiple accessory proteins, such as, Vif, Vpu, and Vpx, of primate lentiviruses. Predominantly, Vpr was found to invoke increasingly numerous host factors for proteasome dependent degradation, such as MCM10, MUS81, helicase-like transcription factor (HLTF), Exonuclease 1 (Exo1), and histone deacetylases (HDACs) [35][36][37]47,48]. Interestingly, these cellular targets also respond to DNA damage from viruses or other environmental stimulants.…”