Genetic Evidence That Captured Retroviral Envelope syncytins Contribute to Myoblast Fusion and Muscle Sexual Dimorphism in Mice

Retroviral envelope gene captures andsyncytinexaptation for placentation in marsupials

(2015) Guillaume Cornelis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Muscle stem cells contribute to myofibres in sedentary adult mice

(2015) Alexandra C. Keefe et al.   Nature Communications

Long-Term Endurance Exercise in Humans Stimulates Cell Fusion of Myoblasts along with Fusogenic Endogenous Retroviral Genes In Vivo

(2015) Sebastian Frese et al.   PLoS One

Syncytin-1 in differentiating human myoblasts: relationship to caveolin-3 and myogenin

(2014) Bolette Bjerregard et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Gene Regulatory Networks and Transcriptional Mechanisms that Control Myogenesis

(2014) Margaret Buckingham et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Myomaker is essential for muscle regeneration

(2014) Douglas P. Millay et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Retroviral envelope syncytin capture in an ancestrally diverged mammalian clade for placentation in the primitive Afrotherian tenrecs

(2014) G. Cornelis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

G-protein coupled receptor BAI3 promotes myoblast fusion in vertebrates

(2014) N. Hamoud et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Myomaker is a membrane activator of myoblast fusion and muscle formation

(2013) Douglas P. Millay et al.   NATURE

Paleovirology of 'syncytins', retroviral env genes exapted for a role in placentation

(2013) C. Lavialle et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Satellite Cells and the Muscle Stem Cell Niche

(2013) Hang Yin et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Captured retroviral envelope syncytin gene associated with the unique placental structure of higher ruminants

(2013) Guillaume Cornelis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Actin-Propelled Invasive Membrane Protrusions Promote Fusogenic Protein Engagement During Cell-Cell Fusion

(2013) K. Shilagardi et al.   SCIENCE

Myoblast fusion: lessons from flies and mice

(2012) S. M. Abmayr et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Testosterone Improves the Regeneration of Old and Young Mouse Skeletal Muscle

(2012) C. Serra et al.   JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES A-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND MEDICAL SCIENCES

Ancestral capture of syncytin-Car1, a fusogenic endogenous retroviral envelope gene involved in placentation and conserved in Carnivora

(2012) G. Cornelis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Building Muscle: Molecular Regulation of Myogenesis

(2012) C. F. Bentzinger et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

A pair of co-opted retroviral envelope syncytin genes is required for formation of the two-layered murine placental syncytiotrophoblast

(2011) A. Dupressoir et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Involvement of human endogenous retroviral syncytin-1 in human osteoclast fusion

(2010) Kent Søe et al.   BONE

Adult satellite cells and embryonic muscle progenitors have distinct genetic requirements

(2009) Christoph Lepper et al.   NATURE

Syncytin-A knockout mice demonstrate the critical role in placentation of a fusogenic, endogenous retrovirus-derived, envelope gene

(2009) A. Dupressoir et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Identification of an endogenous retroviral envelope gene with fusogenic activity and placenta-specific expression in the rabbit: a new "syncytin" in a third order of mammals

(2009) Odile Heidmann et al.   Retrovirology

Early patterning of the chorion leads to the trilaminar trophoblast cell structure in the placental labyrinth

(2008) D. G. Simmons et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Impaired skeletal muscle development and function in male, but not female, genomic androgen receptor knockout mice

(2008) Helen E. MacLean et al.   FASEB JOURNAL