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A cottontail rabbit papillomavirus strain (CRPVb) with strikingly divergent E6 and E7 oncoproteins: An insight in the evolution of papillomaviruses.
Virology - 1 Sept 1997
Salmon J, Ramoz N, Cassonnet P, Orth G, Breitburd F
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We previously observed that warts induced by an isolate of cottontail rabbit papillomavirus (CRPV) showed incomplete instead of systemic regression in some domestic rabbits. We report that the viral isolate contained, as a major component, a CRPV strain (CRPVb) showing an unexpectedly high divergence in the E6 and E7 open reading frames (ORFs), compared to the prototype CRPVa present in the isolate as a minor...
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