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Identification and Phylogeny of the Human Endogenous Retrovirus HERV-W LTR Family in Cancer Cells  

Yi, Joo-Mi (Division of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Pusan University)
Kim, Hwan-Mook (Laboratory of Biopotency Evaluation, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology)
Kim, Heui-Soo (Division of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Pusan University)
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Animal cells and systems / v.6, no.2, 2002 , pp. 167-170 More about this Journal
Abstract
The long terminal repeats (LTRs) of human endogenous retrovirus (HERV) have been found to be coexpressed with sequences of closely located genes. It has been suggested that the LTR elements have contributed to the structural change or genetic variation of human genome connected to various diseases and evolution. We examined the HERV-W LTR elements in various cancer cells (2F7, A43l , A549, HepG2, MIA-PaCa-2, PC-3, RT4, SiHa, U-937, and UO-31). Using genomic DNA from the cancer cells, we performed PCR amplification and identified twelve new HERV-W LTR elements. Those LTR elements showed a high degree of sequence similarity (88-99％) with HERV-W LTR (AF072500). A phylogenetic tree obtained by the neighbor-joining method revealed that HERV-W LTR elements could be mainly divided into two groups through evolutionary divergence. Three HERV-W LTR elements (RT4-2, A43l-1, and UO3l-2) belonged to Group 1, whereas nine LTR elements (2F7-2, A549-1, A549-3, HepG2-3, MP2-2, PC3-1, SiHa-8, SiHa-10, and U937-1) belonged to Group 11. Taken together, our new sequence data of the HERV-W LTR elements may contribute to an understanding of tissue-specific cancer by genomic instability of LTR integration.
Keywords
Cancer cells; HERV-W; LTR elements; Phylogeny;
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