Article
In vitro biological activities of the E6 and E7 genes vary among human papillomaviruses of different oncogenic potential.
Journal of virology - 1 Jan 1991
Barbosa M S, Vass W C, Lowy D R, Schiller J T
Abstract excerpt
Human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV-16) and HPV-18 are often detected in cervical carcinomas, while HPV-6, although frequently present in benign genital lesions, is only rarely present in cancers of the cervix. Therefore, infections with HPV-16 and HPV-18 are considered high risk and infection with HPV-6 is considered low risk. We found, by using a heterologous promoter system, that expression of the E7...
Topics
- Animals
- Cell Division
- Cell Line
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
- Cells, Cultured
- Cloning, Molecular
- Cysteine
- Genes, Viral
- Genetic Complementation Test
- Genetic Variation
- Harvey murine sarcoma virus
