A pair of co-opted retroviral envelope syncytin genes is required for formation of the two-layered murine placental syncytiotrophoblast

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

Volumn 108, Issue 46, 2011, Pages

  Dupressoir, Anne ^a,b   Vernochet, Cécile ^a,b   Harper, Francis ^a,b   Guégan, Justine ^c   Dessen, Philippe ^c   Pierron, Gérard ^a,b   Heidmann, Thierry ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

Author keywords

Cell cell fusion; Knockout mice; Labyrinth

Indexed keywords

ENVELOPE PROTEIN; SYNCYTIN 1 PROTEIN; SYNCYTIN 2 PROTEIN; SYNCYTIN A PROTEIN; SYNCYTIN B PROTEIN; SYNCYTIN ORY1 PROTEIN; SYNCYTIN PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; EMBRYO; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; ENVELOPE GENE; EPIGENETICS; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENOME; GROWTH RETARDATION; MALE; MEMBRANE FORMATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SURVIVAL; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; UPREGULATION; VIRUS ENVELOPE;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; GENOME; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RABBITS; RETROVIRIDAE; TROPHOBLASTS;

MAMMALIA; MURINAE; MUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 81755187043     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1112304108     Document Type: Article

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