Introduction: The avian influenza (AI) virus causes a highly contagious disease which is common in wild and domestic birds and sporadic in humans. Mutations and genetic reassortments among the 8 negat
Ten-eleven translocation (TET) proteins play key roles in regulating the methylation status of DNA through oxidizing methylcytosines (5mC), generating 5-hydroxymethylcytosines (5hmC) that can both ser
We have previously identified in the human genome a family of 200 endogenous retrovirus-like elements, the HERV-L elements, disclosing similarities with the foamy retroviruses and which might be the e
Human endogenous retroviruses were also called LTR elements which can be bound by transcription factors and marked by different histone modifications. In previous studies, LTR had been considered harm
