ReviewScience (New York, N.Y.)2025
Evolution of antiviral host defenses against a backdrop of endogenous retroelements.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Endogenous RNA virus-derived elements exhibit functional divergence in modulating development and virus susceptibility inVirulence · 2026Article
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- Transposable elements as catalysts of evolutionary innovation.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2026Article
- Engineered soluble truncated envelope proteins block bovine leukemia virus infection.Virus research · 2026Article
- Gammaretrovirus Infections in Humans in the Past, Present, and Future: Have We Defeated the Pathogen?Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- CDK9 Inhibition with enitociclib reveals influence on HERV and LINE RNA abundances in whole blood, T-, and B-Cell lines.BMC medical genomics · 2026Article
- Probing the molecular determinants of Ty1 retrotransposon restriction specificity in yeast.PLoS genetics · 2025Article
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Abstract
Mammalian hosts deploy a multitude of germ line-encoded mechanisms to detect and restrict virus infection. These mechanisms must avoid pathological responses to endogenous retroviruses and other endogenous retrotransposable elements (RTEs)-viruses and viruslike genomic parasites that have invaded the host germ line and are passed down the generations as host genes. Although the location, specificity, and sensitivity of innate pattern recognition receptors and restriction factors are tuned to facilitate discrimination of infecting viruses from those that are part of self, immune cross-reactions do occur. The RTE viral heritage may, therefore, compromise the ability of the host to respond to virus infection without risking pathology. Nevertheless, RTEs have the potential to be co-opted as an alarm amplification system, to be repurposed as antiviral factors, and to contribute to the evolution of antiviral genes.
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