TWiV 382: Everyone’s a little bit viral
- March 27, 2016
- Tagged as: AIM, CHiP, computational biology, crispr, endogenous retroviruses, enhancer, erv, IFN, inflammasome, interferon, retrovirus, STAT1, transposable element, viral, virology, virus, viruses
Nels and Ed join the TWiV team to talk about their observation that regulation of the human interferon response depends on regulatory sequences that were co-opted millions of years ago from endogenous retroviruses.