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Human papillomavirus (HPV) origin-binding protein associates with mitotic spindles to enable viral DNA partitioning
12 Mar 2004
Abstract excerpt
Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) establish long-term infections in patients. The mechanism for extrachromosomal HPV DNA persistence in cycling cells is unknown. We show that HPV origin-containing plasmids partition as minichromosomes, attributable to an association of the viral origin recognition protein E2 with mitotic spindles. alpha-, beta-, and gamma-tubulins were pulled down with a tagged E2. The N-terminal...
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