From ancestral infectious retroviruses to bona fide cellular genes: Role of the captured syncytins in placentation

Placenta

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 663-671

  Dupressoir, A ^a,b   Lavialle, C ^a,b   Heidmann, T ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Cell cell fusion; Endogenous retrovirus; Envelope gene; Mammalian evolution; Placenta; Syncytin

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SYNCYTIN; PROTEIN SYNCYTIN 1; PROTEIN SYNCYTIN 2; PROTEIN SYNCYTIN A; PROTEIN SYNCYTIN B; PROTEIN SYNCYTIN CAR1; PROTEIN SYNCYTIN ORY1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTION; RETROVIRUS; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; FEMALE; GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PLACENTATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; RETROVIRIDAE; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS; VIRUS INTEGRATION;

EID: 84865240335     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: 15323102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2012.05.005     Document Type: Article

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