Article
Development of skin tumors in mice transgenic for early genes of human papillomavirus type 8.
Cancer research - 15 Feb 2005
Schaper Inke Diana, Marcuzzi Gian Paolo, Weissenborn Sönke Jan, Kasper Hans Udo, Dries Volker, Smyth Neil, Fuchs Pawel, Pfister Herbert
Abstract excerpt
The cutaneous human papillomavirus (HPV) 8 is clearly involved in skin cancer development in epidermodysplasia verruciformis patients and its early genes E2, E6, and E7 have been implicated in cell transformation in vitro. To examine the functions of these genes in vivo we integrated the complete early region of HPV8 into the genome of DBA/Bl6 mice. To target their expression to the basal layer of the squamous...
Topics
- Animals
- Genes, Viral
- Genes, p53
- Keratin-14
- Keratins
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred DBA
- Mice, Transgenic
- Mutation
- Papillomaviridae
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Skin Neoplasms
- Transcription, Genetic
