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Prevalence of human papilloma virus DNA in head and neck cancers carrying wild-type or mutant p53 tumor suppressor genes.
Anticancer research - 1 Jan 2000
Adams V, Schmid S, Zariwala M, Schmid M, Kleihues P, Briner J, Schäfer R
Abstract excerpt
The normal function of the p53 tumor suppressor protein can be perturbed by non-mutational mechanisms. The E6 protein encoded by high risk strains of human papilloma virus (HPV) targets the p53 protein resulting in enhanced degradation via the ubiquitin pathway. We have used nested PCR for detecting the presence of HPV DNA in 58 primary head and neck tumors and 15 metastatic lymph nodes, which had been...
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