Pregnenolone promotes immune evasion through blocking endogenous #retrovirus expression.

Sexual abstinence promotes #tumor progression by inducing #pregnenolone production. Pregnenolone facilitates the formation of H3K9me3 to suppress #ERV replication.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1550413125005844 #microbiology #cancer