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Transcription-independent triggering of the extrinsic pathway of apoptosis by human papillomavirus 18 E2 protein.
Oncogene - 16 Jan 2003
Demeret Caroline, Garcia-Carranca Alejandro, Thierry Françoise
Abstract excerpt
Cervical carcinomas are most frequently associated with human papillomaviruses (HPV), whose E6 and E7 oncogenes products induce cellular immortalization. The papillomavirus E2 protein is a transcription factor, which represses the expression of the viral oncogenes, and activates viral DNA replication during the vegetative viral cycle. This protein is specifically inactivated in HPV18-associated carcinoma cells,...
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