Inside the envelope: Endogenous retrovirus-K Env as a biomarker and therapeutic target

Due to multiple ancestral human retroviral germ cell infections, the modern human genome is strewn with relics of these infections, termed endogenous retroviruses (ERVs). ERV expression has been silenced due to negative selective pressures and genetic phenomena such as mutations and epigenetic silen...

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Main Authors: Marie-Josée eNadeau, Mamneet eManghera, Renée Nicole Douville
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01244/full