Exaptation of Retroviral Syncytin for Development of Syncytialized Placenta, Its Limited Homology to the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein and Arguments against Disturbing Narrative in the Context of COVID-19 Vaccination

SIMPLE SUMMARY: The anti-vaccination movement claims an alleged danger of the COVID-19 vaccine based on the presupposed similarity between syncytin, which plays a role in human placentation and the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. We argue that because of very low sequence similarity between human syncytin...

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Autores principales: Kloc, Malgorzata, Uosef, Ahmed, Kubiak, Jacek Z., Ghobrial, Rafik M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8003504/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33808658
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology10030238

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8003504/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33808658
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology10030238

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