The HERV-K accessory protein Np9 controls viability and migration of teratocarcinoma cells.
Human endogenous retroviruses are remnants of ancient germline infections that make up approximately 8% of the modern human genome.The HERV-K (HML-2) family is one of the most recent entrants into the human germline, these viruses appear to be transcriptionally active, and HERV-K viral like particles (VLPs) are found in cell lines from a number of