Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Endogenous Retrovirus


Endogenous Retroviruses are retroviral genomes inserted in vertebrate chromossomes, that might induce the synthesis of exogenous viruses. However, the majority does not have the capacity to form new viruses. So, these inactive sequences represent genome wide-repeats that can not proceed with any further proliferation.


 Fig.1- Human endogenous retrovirus (TEM)

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