This study examines the mechanism utilized by different MARCH proteins to restrict retrovirus infection. block incorporation of envelope glycoproteins budding virions.

In 2013, the first Koala Retrovirus Workshop was held in San Diego, bringing together biology and veterinary specialists to assess discuss state of knowledge on koala retrovirus (KoRV) form professional bridges networks. Tremendous progress has been made years following Diego meeting, large part due ongoing international collaborations that were fostered study KoRV. This volume presents peer-re...

background: single domain antibodies from camel heavy chain antibodies (vhh or nanobody), are advantages due to higher solubility, stability, high homology with human antibody, lower immunogenicity and low molecular weight. these criteria make them candidates for production of engineered antibody fragments particularly in transgenic animals. objective: to study the development of transgenic chi...

We report here on the development and characterization of a novel herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) amplicon-based vector system which takes advantage of the host range and retention properties of HSV-Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) hybrid amplicons to efficiently convert cells to retrovirus vector producer cells after single-step transduction. The retrovirus genes gag-pol and env (GPE) and retrovir...

In 1911, the first retrovirus was described: the Rous sarcoma virus, an avian retrovirus. Forty years later the murine leukemic virus, a mouse retrovirus, was reported. Although many other retroviruses from non-primate species were identified during the 1960s, the first primate retrovirus was not recognized until it was isolated from a monkey tumor in 1970. The search for human retroviruses in ...

Human bronchioloalveolar carcinoma (BAC) is a lung cancer, morphologically similar to an endemic contagious lung neoplasm of sheep called sheep pulmonary adenomatosis (SPA) or jaagsiekte. SPA is caused by an exogenous type B/D retrovirus (jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus (JSRV)), which prompted the present study to obtain evidence of a retrovirus in BAC. A panel of 249 human lung tumours, 21 nontumo...

OBJECTIVES The risk of porcine endogenous retrovirus infection is a major barrier for pig-to-human xenotransplant. Porcine endogenous retrovirus, present in porcine cells, can infect many human and nonhuman primate cells in vitro, but there is no evidence available about in vitro infection of human liver cells. We investigated the susceptibility of different human liver cells to porcine endogen...

BACKGROUND: The polysaccharide hyaluronan is a major component of the extracellular matrix and has been observed to impact retrovirus infectivity in biological settings. Hyaluronan has also been applied in biotechnology as a non-immunogenic, biocompatible agent to improve control of drug delivery and lentiviral transduction. We carried out a preliminary investigation to ascertain if the presenc...