In contrast to several other mammals, human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) are believed to have lost the ability to replicate but HERV-K, the youngest and most conserved family, is able to generate virus-like particles. Following i ......
2005. The distribution of the endogenous retroviruses HERV-K113 and HERV-K115 in health and disease. Genomics 86: 337-341.Moyes DL, Martin A, Sawcer S, Temperton N, Worthington J, Griffiths DJ, Venables PJ: The distribution of the endogenous retroviruses HERV-K113 and HERV-K115 in ...
While the oldest of the roughly 30 HERV-K sequences integrated into the human genome more than 25 million years ago, evidence is accumulating that HERV-K was active until quite recently, the youngest sequence found being HERV-K113. It is however unclear, which HERV-K sequence encodes for ...