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- noun biochemistry Any of a class of
captive retroviral envelope proteins involved inhuman placental morphogenesis
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One of these, on chromosome 7, contains a gene called syncytin-1, which codes for a protein originally used in the virus's envelope but now critical to the functioning of the human placenta.
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