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BRCA1 Interaction with Human Papillomavirus Oncoproteins
28 Jun 2005
Abstract excerpt
Previously, we reported that BRCA1 strongly represses the transcriptional activity of estrogen receptor-alpha (ER-alpha) in human breast and prostate cancer cells but only weakly inhibits ER-alpha in cervical cancer cells. We now report that introduction of the human papillomavirus E7 or E6 oncogenes into human papillomavirus-negative cells rescues the BRCA1 repression of ER-alpha activity and that the E7 and E6...
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