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Correlation between human papillomavirus-associated cervical cancer and p53 codon 72 arginine/proline polymorphism.
Human genetics - 1 Dec 1999
Tachezy R, Mikysková I, Saláková M, Van Ranst M
Abstract excerpt
High-risk mucosal human papillomaviruses encode an E6 oncoprotein, which binds the cellular p53 tumor suppressor protein, thereby marking it for degradation through the ubiquitin-mediated pathway. A common p53 polymorphism at codon-72 of exon 4 results in translation to either arginine or proline. Recently reported data suggested an increased susceptibility to E6/ubiquitin-mediated degradation of the Arg72-p53...
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