Endogenous retroviruses: Lethal reawakening
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 - 18:00
in Biology & Nature
Retroviral DNAs integrate into host genomes, but their expression is normally repressed by cellular defense mechanisms. As an Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich team now shows, when these measures fail, accumulation of viral proteins may trigger programmed cell death.