Proviral protein provides placental function

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 29, 2009, Pages 11827-11828

  Stoye, Jonathan P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; SYNCYTIN 1; SYNCYTIN 2; SYNCYTIN A; SYNCYTIN B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; ENVELOPE GENE; GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MEMBRANE FUSION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PLACENTA FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROVIRUS; RECEPTOR BINDING; SYNCYTIN 1 GENE; SYNCYTIN 2 GENE; SYNCYTIN A GENE; SYNCYTIN B GENE; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; VIRUS RESISTANCE;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; FEMALE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; PROVIRUSES; TROPHOBLASTS; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

EID: 67749108574     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0906295106     Document Type: Note

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