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Controlling Trophoblast Cell Fusion in the Human Placenta—Transcriptional Regulation of Suppressyn, an Endogenous Inhibitor of Syncytin-1
7 Nov 2023
Abstract excerpt
Cell fusion in the placenta is tightly regulated. Suppressyn is a human placental endogenous retroviral protein that inhibits the profusogenic activities of another well-described endogenous retroviral protein, syncytin-1. In this study, we aimed to elucidate the mechanisms underlying suppressyn’s placenta-specific expression. We identified the promoter region and a novel enhancer region for the gene encoding...
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