Application | Comment | Organism |
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medicine | Setdb1 has a constant role in endogenous retrovirus silencing. Distinctive sets of endogenous retroviruses are reactivated in different types of Setdb1-deficient somatic cells, including the VL30-class of endogenous retroviruses in mouse embryonic fibroblasts. A viral defense response is induced in immortalized Setdb1 knock-out embryonic fibroblasts | Mus musculus |
Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
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Mus musculus | O88974 | - |
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Source Tissue | Comment | Organism | Textmining |
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embryonic stem cell | - |
Mus musculus | - |
General Information | Comment | Organism |
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physiological function | Setdb1 has a constant role in endogenous retrovirus silencing. Distinctive sets of endogenous retroviruses are reactivated in different types of Setdb1-deficient somatic cells, including the VL30-class of endogenous retroviruses in mouse embryonic fibroblasts. A viral defense response is induced in immortalized Setdb1 knock-out embryonic fibroblasts | Mus musculus |