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ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2015

Inside the Envelope: Endogenous Retrovirus-K Env as a Biomarker and Therapeutic Target.

Marie-Josée Nadeau, Mamneet Manghera, Renée N Douville

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Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The role of HERV envelope protein in ovarian cancer.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025
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  4. TDP-43 pathology inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Marie-Josée NadeauDouville Lab, Department of Biology, University of Winnipeg Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
Mamneet MangheraDouville Lab, Department of Biology, University of Winnipeg Winnipeg, MB, Canada ; Department of Immunology, University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
Renée N DouvilleDouville Lab, Department of Biology, University of Winnipeg Winnipeg, MB, Canada ; Department of Immunology, University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
University of Winnipeg · CAUniversity of Manitoba · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Due to multiple ancestral human retroviral germ cell infections, the modern human genome is strewn with relics of these infections, termed endogenous retroviruses (ERVs). ERV expression has been silenced due to negative selective pressures and genetic phenomena such as mutations and epigenetic silencing. Nonetheless, select ERVs have retained the capacity to be damaging to their host when reawakened. Much of the current research on the ERVK Env protein strongly suggests a causal or contributive role in the pathogenesis of various cancers, autoimmune and infectious diseases. Additionally, there is a small body of research suggesting that ERVK Env has been domesticated for use in placental development, akin to the ERVW syncytin. Though much is left to ascertain, the innate immune response to ERVK Env expression has been partially characterized and appears to be due to a region located in the transmembrane domain of the Env protein. In this review, we aim to highlight ERVK Env as a biomarker for inflammatory conditions and explore its use as a future therapeutic target for cancers, HIV infection and neurological disease.

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cancerendogenous retrovirusenvelope proteinimmune responsetherapeutics

Identifiers

PMID26617584
PMCPMC4643131
OpenAlexW2181342396

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