Mosaic cis-regulatory evolution drives transcriptional partitioning of HERVH endogenous retrovirus in the human embryo
T. A. Carter, M. Singh, G. Dumbovic, J. Chobirko, J. Rinn, C. Feschotte
The paper identifies subfamilies of HERVH elements with distinct transcriptional activity in human embryos and shows a SOX2/3 binding site is essential for promoter activity in pluripotent stem cells.
bioRxiv · Jul 8, 2021Evolutionary Biology