Potential Role of Accessory Domains in Polyproteins Encoded by Retrotransposons in Anti-viral Defense of Host Cells

Front Microbiol. 2019 Jan 4:9:3193. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.03193. eCollection 2018.

Sergey Y Morozov^{1

2}, Alexander A Lezzhov³, Ekaterina A Lazareva², Tatiana N Erokhina⁴, Andrey G Solovyev^{1

2

5}

¹ A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
² Department of Virology, Biological Faculty, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
³ Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
⁴ Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia.
⁵ Institute of Molecular Medicine, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia.

No abstract available

Keywords: DNA methylase; DNA transposon; RNA helicase; anti-viral defense; insects; plants; retrotransposon.