Endogenous retrovirus
Wolbachia Influences the Maternal Transmission of the gypsy Endogenous Retrovirus in Drosophila melanogaster
... It was shown that Wolbachia manipulates a host miRNA in Aedes aegypti that decreases the expression of AdDnmt-2, a meth- yltransferase gene that is upregulated by dengue virus (31). In contrast, the small interfering RNA ...
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Nomenclature for endogenous retrovirus (ERV) loci
... Retroviral integration into germline DNA can result in the formation of a vertically inherited proviral sequence called an endogenous retrovirus (ERV). Over the course of their evolution, vertebrate genomes ...
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Papio cynocephalus Endogenous Retrovirus among Old World Monkeys: Evidence for Coevolution and Ancient Cross-Species Transmissions
... To study the evolutionary history of Papio cynocephalus endogenous retrovirus (PcEV), we analyzed the distribution and genetic characteristics of PcEV among 17 different species of primates. The viral ...
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Identification and Characterization of Novel Human Endogenous Retrovirus Families by Phylogenetic Screening of the Human Genome Mapping Project Database
... nucleic acids (58). Alignments of these regions are shown for several of the HERV families investigated in this study (see Fig. 4a and b). A putative MHR was identified in the gag gene of HERV.S, but the Cys-His motif ...
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Recent Amplification of the Kangaroo Endogenous Retrovirus, KERV, Limited to the Centromere
... monkey retrovirus; MPMV, Mason-Pfizer monkey virus; OaRV, Ornithorhynchus anatinus endogenous class II-related virus; HERV-K, human endogenous retrovirus K; FcRV, Felis catus endogenous ...
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Genomic Flexibility of Human Endogenous Retrovirus Type K
... Human endogenous retrovirus type K (HERV-K) proviruses are scattered throughout the human genome, but as no infectious HERV-K virus has been detected to date, the mechanism by which these viruses replicated ...
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tirant, a Newly Discovered Active Endogenous Retrovirus in Drosophila simulans
... canonical endogenous retrovirus consists of three open reading frames (ORFs), which are bordered by long terminal repeats ...several endogenous retroviruses have been described, and most of them ...
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Novel Endogenous Retrovirus in Rabbits Previously Reported as Human Retrovirus 5
... Further evaluation of the role of HRV-5 in RA, SLE, and other inflammatory diseases required the cloning and sequenc- ing of the viral genome in order to establish robust serological assays and other reagents for ...
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Paleogenomic Record of the Extinction of Human Endogenous Retrovirus ERV9
... an endogenous retrovirus repeatedly mobilized during primate evolution, 15 to 6 million years ago (MYA), which left a trace of over a hundred provirus-like copies and at least 4,000 solitary long terminal ...
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Molecular and Enzymatic Characterization of the Porcine Endogenous Retrovirus Protease
... PIs that inhibit specifically the HIV protease at nanomolar range are employed as chemotherapeutic drugs against HIV infection (saquinavir, ritornavir, indinavir, and nelfinavir). These drugs were also tested against the ...
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Evidence for a piwi-Dependent RNA Silencing of the gypsy Endogenous Retrovirus by the Drosophila melanogaster flamenco Gene
... In Drosophila melanogaster, the endogenous retrovirus gypsy is repressed by the functional alleles (restric- tive) of an as-yet-uncloned heterochromatic gene called flamenco. Using gypsy-lacZ ...
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Human-Specific Integrations of the HERV-K Endogenous Retrovirus Family
... of endogenous retrovirus-like sequences (HERVs) exist in the genomes of humans and other ...of endogenous retroviral integrations that are specific to humans and indicates that some HERVs have ...
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Identification of a Full-Length cDNA for an Endogenous Retrovirus of Miniature Swine
... full-length, endogenous retroviral sequence from ...from endogenous viruses of porcine cell ...of endogenous retrovirus: one with greatest homology to PERV-MSL and Tsukuba-1 and a second with ...
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Extended Analysis of the In Vitro Tropism of Porcine Endogenous Retrovirus
... We previously reported that mitogenic activation of porcine peripheral blood mononuclear cells resulted in production of porcine endogenous retrovirus(es) (PERV[s]) capable of productively infecting human ...
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The Transdominant Endogenous Retrovirus enJS56A1 Associates with and Blocks Intracellular Trafficking of Jaagsiekte Sheep Retrovirus Gag
... simian retrovirus 2; TV- ervD, brushtail possum type D endogenous retrovirus; MMTV, mouse mammary tumor virus; HERV-K, human endogenous retrovirus ...
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Susceptibility of the Porcine Endogenous Retrovirus to Reverse Transcriptase and Protease Inhibitors
... porcine endogenous retrovirus (PERV). PERV is a C-type retrovirus that is per- manently integrated, in multiple copies, in the pig genome (23, ...
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Human endogenous retrovirus K10 encodes a functional integrase.
... We cloned a human endogenous retrovirus K10 DNA fragment encoding integrase and expressed it as a fusion protein with Escherichia coli maltose-binding protein. Integrase activities were measured in vitro by ...
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Comprehensive Analysis of Human Endogenous Retrovirus Transcriptional Activity in Human Tissues with a Retrovirus-Specific Microarray
... Our data reveal that the activity of endogenous retroviruses is regulated differentially and is cell type specific, similar to normal gene regulation. The target site of integration may play a major role in ...
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Identification of the Receptor Used by the Ecotropic Mouse GLN Endogenous Retrovirus
... GLN endogenous retro- virus, using a gain-of-function cDNA library screen adapted from the one described previously by Bianchi et ...koala retrovirus type B (KoRV-B) (11, 12) and feline leukemia virus type ...
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Regulation of Porcine Endogenous Retrovirus Release by Porcine and Human Tetherins
... of endogenous tetherin expression, such as 293T cells, than in PK15 cells, whose tetherin mRNA level is higher but still moderate ...that endogenous tetherin ex- pression is IFN regulated and not prevalent ...
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