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Identification and characterization of 106 S two novel syncytin-like retroviral SACL envelope genes, captured for a 8 possible role in the atypical structure : 201 of the hyena placenta and in the NNT emergence of the non-mammalian Mabuya lizard placenta Thèse de doctorat de l'Université Paris-Saclay préparée à l'UMR 9196, Gustave Roussy École doctorale n°582 cancérologie: biologie, médecine, santé (CBMS) Spécialité de doctorat: aspects moléculaires et cellulaires de la biologie Thèse présentée et soutenue à Villejuif, le 23 mai 2018, par Mathis Funk Composition du Jury : Uriel Hazan Professeur des université, ENS Paris-Saclay (– UMR 8113) Président Jean-Luc Battini Directeur de recherche, IRIM (– UMR 9004) Rapporteur Olivier Schwartz Directeur de recherche, Institut Pasteur (– UMR 3569) Rapporteur Pascale Chavatte-Palmer Directrice de recherche, INRA (– UMR 1198) Examinatrice François Mallet Directeur de recherche, bioMérieux (– EA 7426) Examinateur Thierry Heidmann Directeur de recherche, CNRS (– UMR 9196) Directeur de thèse Acknowledgments I would first like to thank the members of the jury for taking the time to read the present manuscript, which turned out a bit longer than I had planned. I would like to thank Uriel Hazan for accepting to be the president of this jury, book-ending his involvement in my studies. What had started at the ENS Cachan and continued during my Master’s degree at the Institut Pasteur, finally reaches its culmination with the present work, on a topic that Uriel suggested I look into. I would like to sincerely thank Jean-Luc Battini and Olivier Schwartz for their critical reading and evaluation of the present manuscript and their positive feedback. Finally, I want to thank Pascale Chavatte-Palmer and François Mallet, for taking the time to read my work and for accepting to be a part of the jury. I would, of course, also like to thank Thierry Heidmann for giving me the opportunity to work in his laboratory for the past four years, for being always available when I was in need of a guiding hand and present when I needed some prodding. Thank you for not only helping me to get these results, but also for the countless hours we spent to turn them into actual scientific articles. I am grateful to Anne Dupressoir and Gérard Pierron for spending time reading through my manuscript and their words of encouragement and advice. I also want to thank Christa Kuhn for her enthusiasm and encouragement, which played an important part in getting me to where I am today. Je souhaite remercier l’intégralité de l’unité 9196, en particulier Marie et Anne pour avoir partagé leurs savoirs, leurs conseils ainsi que leurs bureaux, Cécile Vernochet pour son aide inestimable, Seila pour son soutien administratif et émotionnel, Grégoire pour son optimisme inébranlable et infectieux, Caroline, Cécile Lemaître et Anthony pour les bon moments passés ensemble, et ce-dernier tout particulièrement pour nos nombreuses discussions (profondes et/ou inutiles) et son énergie aussi inépuisable qu’insupportable. Un grand merci également à Guil- laume, ex-membre de l’unité, pour m’avoir encadré pendant mes débuts et avoir toujours été disponible pour mes questions. J’aimerais remercier le gang des pasteuriens, premiers parmi eux mes ex-colocataires, Matthieu et Thomas, merci de m’avoir supporté pendant ces trois ans et quelques de vie com- mune au 20 avenue d’Ivry, qui s’est transformé en haut-lieu de la science, accueillant maints et maints congrès réunissant la fine fleur de la virologie et de l’immunologie parisienne. I would iii like to thank Oksana, one of the kindest and most generous persons I have had the pleasure to know and someone you can always count on. Merci à Simon l’invisible, ton rétro nous a apporté de nombreuses heures de bonheur. Merci à Vincent le sale cylon pour les côtes de bœuf et à Essia pour ses couscous, toujours aussi bons que son humeur. Merci aux deux Juju pour la bonne ambiance, et je vous souhaite bien du courage, à Juju pour supporter Matthieu et à Juju pour finir ta thèse. Merci aussi à Anaïs, Laura, Cécile, Alix, Marion et tous les autres qui ont rendu la vie parisienne tellement plus agréable. J’aimerais également remercier mes nouveaux ex-colocataires, Raphaël, Ferretti et Viking, pour m’avoir permis de garder l’appartement quelques mois de plus, puis pour m’avoir accueilli sur notre canapé qui, entretemps, était devenu le leur. On a somewhat stranger note I would like to thank all of the friends I have never met, but who have been there to play, talk and just hang out in the virtual parts of this world. Thank you to all sigmas, especially 48, Mori Kaal and koreamax, but also willemd, :goatdrügs:, Cal, and even Thuneral, Slap Chop and Koahi. A great thank you to the Aqueduct Acrobats who have been able to observe my slow and steady descent into placenta and retrovirus induced madness over the past few months, especially Topaz with his awful K/D, expensive haircuts and shared disgust of terrible book adaptations, mrcompson for our academia themed diversions and unmasking the terrible truth behind omics- conferences, and Malloot, everyone’s favorite tactical espionage action ground team leader and platforming liability. I also want to thank Norns and Tarth, our resident Americans, as well as Charisma and Waka. Ich möchte natürlich auch meiner Familie danken, meiner Mutter, meiner Schwester und meinen beiden Brüdern, von deren Hilfe ich immer ausgehen konnte und deren Gesellschaft und Vertrauen mein Leben bereichert haben. Ich danke meiner Oma und meinem Opa für ihre Ermutigungen und Liebe. J’aimerais remercier Patrice, qui a été pour moi pendant ces 25 dernières années le meilleur père que j’aurais pu souhaiter, et qui m’a poussé à être curieux et intéressé en espérant de peut-être, un jour, être aussi instruit et intéressant que lui. Ich möchte hier auch ganz besonders meiner Tante Jutta danken, die innerhalb von ein paar Tagen die ganze Einführung durchgelesen und korrigiert hat. Last but not least, I want to thank all of the people that I have shamefully forgotten to mention here, please forgive me for this oversight. I am still unsure of how I made it this far, but one thing I know: I would not have made it without you. The words above pale in comparison to what I owe you all, I have written and rewritten them many times and I know I’ll never be able to express the feeling appropriately, so all I can do is apologize and say it once more, thank you all so very much. iv Contents Acknowledgments iii Abbreviations xi I Introduction 1 1 Placenta 5 1.1 Challenges of viviparity ............................. 5 1.1.1 Maternofetal exchanges . 5 a. Nutrients 6 b. Oxygen 8 c. Waste 9 1.1.2 Placentation and the maternal immune system . 9 a. Major histocompatibility complex expression 9 b. Uterine natural killer cells 10 c. Adaptive immunity 11 1.1.3 Maternofetal communication . 11 a. Placental hormones 11 b. Extracellular vesicles 12 1.2 Mammalian eutherian placentas ........................ 13 1.2.1 Origin and evolution of the mammalian placenta . 13 a. Monophyletic origin 13 b. Placental diversity 13 1.2.2 Placental types by maternofetal interface . 16 a. Epitheliochorial placentation 18 b. Synepitheliochorial placentation 20 c. Endotheliochorial placentation 22 d. Hemochorial placentation 22 1.3 Viviparity in non-mammalian species ..................... 26 1.3.1 Prevalence of viviparity outside of mammals . 26 v a. Invertebrates 26 b. Non-mammalian vertebrates 27 1.3.2 Examples of non-mammalian placentas . 30 a. Non-vertebrates: the placenta of salps 30 b. Fish: placentation in sharks 31 c. Lizards: placentation in Mabuya and other Scincidae 32 2 Retroviruses 38 2.1 Exogenous Retroviruses ............................. 39 2.1.1 Genomic orgarnisation . 39 a. Non-coding features 39 b. Gag 41 c. Pro and Pol 42 d. Env 44 e. Regulatory and accessory proteins 44 2.1.2 Retroviral phylogeny . 48 a. Subfamily Orthoretrovirinae 48 b. Subfamily Spumaretrovirinae 51 2.1.3 Viral cycle . 53 a. Viral entry 53 b. Reverse transcription 53 c. Genome integration 57 d. Protein expression 60 e. Assembly and budding 61 f. Maturation 64 2.2 Endogenous Retroviruses ............................ 66 2.2.1 Endogenization of retroviral sequences . 67 a. Infection of germinal cells 67 b. Intra-genome spreading of ERVs 69 c. Groups of ERVs 71 2.2.2 Impact of retroviral integration on the host . 72 a. LTR integration can drive ectopic gene expression 72 b. Impact of retroviral gene acquisition on host physiology 76 2.2.3 Fate of ERVs and control by the host . 78 a. Epigenetic regulation of ERV expression 78 b. Accumulation of mutations and solo LTR formation 79 c. Exaptation and purifying selection 80 3 Syncytins 81 3.1 Retroviral envelopes ............................... 81 vi 3.1.1 Functional domains . 81 a. Domains of the SU 81 b. Domains of the TM 83 3.1.2 Env induced membrane fusion . 86 a. Implication of the cognate receptor in fusion 86 b. Model of viral fusion protein class I induced membrane fusion 89 3.2 Syncytins in mammals .............................. 90 3.2.1 Human syncytins: Syncytin-1 and Syncytin-2 . 90 a. Syncytin-1 92 b. Syncytin-2 94 3.2.2 Mouse syncytins: Syncytin-A and Syncytin-B . 95 a. Discovery 95 b. Expression in 2 segregated layers 95 c. Impact of Syncytin knockout on placental physiology 96 3.2.3 Other mammalian syncytins . 98 a. Rabbit: Syncytin-Ory1 98 b. Cat and dog: Syncytin-Car1 99 c. Old world monkey: EnvV2 99 d. Cattle and sheep: Syncytin-Rum1 and Fematrin-1 99 e.
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    An endogenous retroviral envelope syncytin and its PNAS PLUS cognate receptor identified in the viviparous placental Mabuya lizard Guillaume Cornelisa,b,1,2, Mathis Funka,b,1, Cécile Vernocheta,b, Francisca Lealc,3, Oscar Alejandro Tarazonac,4, Guillaume Meuriced, Odile Heidmanna,b, Anne Dupressoira,b, Aurélien Mirallese, Martha Patricia Ramirez-Pinillac, and Thierry Heidmanna,b,5 aUnité Physiologie et Pathologie Moléculaires des Rétrovirus Endogènes et Infectieux, CNRS UMR 9196, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, F-94805, France; bUMR 9196, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, F-91405, France; cLaboratorio de Biologia Reproductiva de Vertebrados, Escuela de Biologia, Universidad Industrial de Santander, 680002 Bucaramanga, Colombia; dPlateforme de Bioinformatique, INSERM US23/CNRS UMS3655, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, F-94805, France; and eInstitut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CNRS UPMC EPHE, Sorbonne Universités, Paris, F-75005, France Edited by R. Michael Roberts, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, and approved October 26, 2017 (received for review August 23, 2017) Syncytins are envelope genes from endogenous retroviruses that Remarkably, placental structures are not restricted to mamma- have been captured during evolution for a function in placentation. lian species. Placentation emerged independently and in a sto- They have been found in all placental mammals in which they have chastic manner in several groups of vertebrates, with the noticeable been searched, including marsupials. Placental structures are not exception of birds (reviewed in refs. 16 and 17). In particular, restricted to mammals but also emerged in some other vertebrates, complex placentas have been described in some South American most frequently in lizards, such as the viviparous Mabuya Scincidae.
  • Here Additional S�Ecies E��Ected in �Undavala �Ere Recorded

    Here Additional SEcies EEcted in Undavala Ere Recorded

    © University of Hamburg 2018 All rights reserved Klaus Hess Publishers Göttingen & Windhoek www.k-hess-verlag.de ISBN: 978-3-933117-95-3 (Germany), 978-99916-57-43-1 (Namibia) Language editing: Will Simonson (Cambridge), and Proofreading Pal Translation of abstracts to Portuguese: Ana Filipa Guerra Silva Gomes da Piedade Page desing & layout: Marit Arnold, Klaus A. Hess, Ria Henning-Lohmann Cover photographs: front: Thunderstorm approaching a village on the Angolan Central Plateau (Rasmus Revermann) back: Fire in the miombo woodlands, Zambia (David Parduhn) Cover Design: Ria Henning-Lohmann ISSN 1613-9801 Printed in Germany Suggestion for citations: Volume: Revermann, R., Krewenka, K.M., Schmiedel, U., Olwoch, J.M., Helmschrot, J. & Jürgens, N. (eds.) (2018) Climate change and adaptive land management in southern Africa – assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions. Biodiversity & Ecology, 6, Klaus Hess Publishers, Göttingen & Windhoek. Articles (example): Archer, E., Engelbrecht, F., Hänsler, A., Landman, W., Tadross, M. & Helmschrot, J. (2018) Seasonal prediction and regional climate projections for southern Africa. In: Climate change and adaptive land management in southern Africa – assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions (ed. by Revermann, R., Krewenka, K.M., Schmiedel, U., Olwoch, J.M., Helmschrot, J. & Jürgens, N.), pp. 14–21, Biodiversity & Ecology, 6, Klaus Hess Publishers, Göttingen & Windhoek. Corrections brought to our attention will be published at the following location: http://www.biodiversity-plants.de/biodivers_ecol/biodivers_ecol.php