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An almost-intact human endogenous retrovirus K on human chromosome 7

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Figure 1: Immunoblot analysis of HERV-K(HML-2.HOM)-encoded gag ('g') and gag-prt ('g-p') proteins prokaryotically expressed from the constructs pY20gag9 and pY20gp14, respectively, using methods described previously7.
Figure 2: HERV-K(HML-2.HOM) ORFs, protease and endonuclease sequences.

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We thank N. Kienzle for providing African, Asian and Oceanian DNA samples and B. Glass for critical reading of the manuscript. This work was supported by grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Mu 452/4-1 and SFB 399–Molekularpathologie der Proliferation A1/B2) and the Commission of the European Union (Gene-CT 93-0019).

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    Jens Mayer, Alexander Rácz, Daniela Scherer & Eckart Meese

  2. Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Abteilung Virologie, Haus 47,

    Jens Mayer, Marlies Sauter & Nikolaus Mueller-Lantzsch

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    Mayer, J., Sauter, M., Rácz, A. et al. An almost-intact human endogenous retrovirus K on human chromosome 7 . Nat Genet 21, 257–258 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/6766

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