JUMPING GENES AND IMMUNITY. “We found that ERVs have shaped the evolution of a transcriptional network underlying the interferon (IFN) response, a major branch of innate immunity, and that lineage-specific ERVs have dispersed numerous IFN-inducible enhancers independently in diverse mammalian genomes.” (ERVs = endogenous retroviruses).
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022