ReviewCellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS2015
Molecular functions of human endogenous retroviruses in health and disease.
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- Human Endogenous Retroviruses and Diseases.MedComm · 2025Review
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- Exploring viral mimicry combined with epigenetics and tumor immunity: new perspectives in cancer therapy.International journal of biological sciences · 2025Review
- Treatment-resistant depression: molecular mechanisms and management.Molecular biomedicine · 2024Review
- HervD Atlas: a curated knowledgebase of associations between human endogenous retroviruses and diseases.Nucleic acids research · 2024Article
- Cancer fusion transcripts with human non-coding RNAs.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Review
- Roles of Human Endogenous Retroviruses and Endogenous Virus-Like Elements in Cancer Development and Innate Immunity.Biomolecules · 2023Review
- The Molecular Link Between TDP-43, Endogenous Retroviruses and Inflammatory Neurodegeneration in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: a Potential Target for Triumeq, an Antiretroviral Therapy.Molecular neurobiology · 2023Review
- HERVs and Cancer-A Comprehensive Review of the Relationship of Human Endogenous Retroviruses and Human Cancers.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- Increased levels of endogenous retroviruses trigger fibroinflammation and play a role in kidney disease development.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Domesticated HERV-W env contributes to the activation of the small conductance CaVirologica Sinica · 2023Article
- Endogenous retrovirus group FRD member 1 is a potential biomarker for prognosis and immunotherapy for kidney renal clear cell carcinoma.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2023Article
- The Evaluation of HERV-K np9, rec, gag Expression in Isolated Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell (PBMC) of Gastric and Colon Cancer.Advanced biomedical research · 2023Article
- Human Endogenous Retroviruses in Diseases.Sub-cellular biochemistry · 2023Article
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Abstract
Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) and related genetic elements form 504 distinct families and occupy ~8% of human genome. Recent success of high-throughput experimental technologies facilitated understanding functional impact of HERVs for molecular machinery of human cells. HERVs encode active retroviral proteins, which may exert important physiological functions in the body, but also may be involved in the progression of cancer and numerous human autoimmune, neurological and infectious diseases. The spectrum of related malignancies includes, but not limits to, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, lupus, schizophrenia, multiple cancer types and HIV. In addition, HERVs regulate expression of the neighboring host genes and modify genomic regulatory landscape, e.g., by providing regulatory modules like transcription factor binding sites (TFBS). Indeed, recent bioinformatic profiling identified ~110,000 regulatory active HERV elements, which formed at least ~320,000 human TFBS. These and other peculiarities of HERVs might have played an important role in human evolution and speciation. In this paper, we focus on the current progress in understanding of normal and pathological molecular niches of HERVs, on their implications in human evolution, normal physiology and disease. We also review the available databases dealing with various aspects of HERV genetics.
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