IFITM proteins: Understanding their diverse roles in viral infection, cancer, and immunity

M Gómez-Herranz, J Taylor, RD Sloan - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2023 - ASBMB
Interferon-induced transmembrane proteins (IFITMs) are broad spectrum antiviral factors that
inhibit the entry of a wide range of clinically important pathogens including influenza A virus …

Mechanisms underlying structural variant formation in genomic disorders

CMB Carvalho, JR Lupski - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
With the recent burst of technological developments in genomics, and the clinical
implementation of genome-wide assays, our understanding of the molecular basis of …

[HTML][HTML] Resurrection of endogenous retroviruses during aging reinforces senescence

X Liu, Z Liu, Z Wu, J Ren, Y Fan, L Sun, G Cao, Y Niu… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Whether and how certain transposable elements with viral origins, such as endogenous
retroviruses (ERVs) dormant in our genomes, can become awakened and contribute to the …

Human structural variation: mechanisms of chromosome rearrangements

B Weckselblatt, MK Rudd - Trends in Genetics, 2015 - cell.com
Chromosome structural variation (SV) is a normal part of variation in the human genome, but
some classes of SV can cause neurodevelopmental disorders. Analysis of the DNA …

Genome mining shows that retroviruses are pervasively invading vertebrate genomes

J Wang, GZ Han - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) record past retroviral infections, providing molecular
archives for interrogating the evolution of retroviruses and retrovirus-host interaction …

Transposable element-mediated rearrangements are prevalent in human genomes

P Balachandran, IA Walawalkar, JI Flores… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Transposable elements constitute about half of human genomes, and their role in
generating human variation through retrotransposition is broadly studied and appreciated …

Switching sides: how endogenous retroviruses protect us from viral infections

S Srinivasachar Badarinarayan, D Sauter - Journal of Virology, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Long disregarded as junk DNA or genomic dark matter, endogenous retroviruses (ERVs)
have turned out to represent important components of the antiviral immune response. These …

Predicting human genes susceptible to genomic instability associated with Alu/Alu-mediated rearrangements

X Song, CR Beck, R Du, IM Campbell… - Genome …, 2018 - genome.cshlp.org
Alu elements, the short interspersed element numbering more than 1 million copies per
human genome, can mediate the formation of copy number variants (CNVs) between …

Exome sequencing and whole genome sequencing for the detection of copy number variation

JY Hehir-Kwa, R Pfundt, JA Veltman - Expert review of molecular …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Many laboratories now use genomic microarrays as their first-tier diagnostic test for copy
number variation (CNV) detection. In addition, whole exome sequencing is increasingly …

Molecular functions of human endogenous retroviruses in health and disease

M Suntsova, A Garazha, A Ivanova, D Kaminsky… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2015 - Springer
Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) and related genetic elements form 504 distinct
families and occupy~ 8% of human genome. Recent success of high-throughput …