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Transcriptome signature of irreversible senescence in human papillomavirus-positive cervical cancer cells.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 10 Jun 2003
Wells Susanne I, Aronow Bruce J, Wise Trisha M, Williams Sarah S, Couget Jennifer A, Howley Peter M
Abstract excerpt
A frequent characteristic of human papillomavirus (HPV)-positive cervical cancers is the loss of viral E2 gene expression in HPV-infected cervical epithelial cells as a consequence of viral DNA integration into the cellular genome. The expression of E2 in HPV-positive cancer cells results in the repression of the viral E6/E7 oncogenes, activation of the p53 and pRB pathways, and a G1 cell cycle arrest, followed...
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