Cancer of the cervix is associated with infection by certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV). The gene variants differ in immune responses and oncogenic potential. The E6 and E7 proteins encoded by high-risk HPV play a key role in cellular transformation. HPV-33 and HPV-58 types are highly prevalent among Chinese women. To study the gene intratypic variations, polymorphisms and positive sel...

background: cervical cancer has been shown to be highly associated with human papillomavirus (hpv) infection. the viral oncogenes e6 and e7 are constantly expressed by the tumor cells and are therefore potent targets for therapeutic genetic vaccination. in the present study, it was investigated the potential effect of hpv-16 e6, e7 and l1 co-administration to activate specific cytotoxic t lymph...

When intracellular viral proteins are degraded, only a limited number of peptide epitopes are capable of eliciting specific CD8+ cellular immune responses for a given human leukocyte antigen (HLA) haplotype. We sought to induce CD8+ T-lymphocyte (CTL) responses to human papillomavirus-16 (HPV-16) E6 and E7 proteins using a recombinant E6/E7 fusion protein and autologous human dendritic cells (D...

1. Abstract 2. Introduction 2.1. HPV infection and carcinogenesis 2.2. Major transforming activities 2.3. The HPV life cycle 3. Section 3. The HPV E7 protein 3.1. Cellular targets of HPV E7 proteins: the retinoblastoma protein family 3.2. Cellular targets of HPV E7 proteins: cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors 3.3. Cellular targets of HPV E7 proteins: chromatin modifying factors 4. Section 4. Th...

Human papillomaviruses (HPV) are unique in that they generate mRNAs that apparently can express multiple proteins from tandemly arranged open reading frames. The mechanisms by which this is achieved are uncertain and are at odds with the basic predictions of the scanning model for translation initiation. We investigated the unorthodox mechanism by which the E6 and E7 oncoproteins from human pap...

Cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses to the human papillomavirus (HPV) type 16 E6 and E7 proteins were measured in 20 women with known HPV and cervical disease status. CTL assays were performed after stimulation with E6 or E7 fusion proteins using autologous B lymphoblastoid cells infected with vaccinia viruses expressing E6 or E7. CTL responses to E6 and E7 were detected in 6 (75%) of 8 and ...

Targeted inhibition of oncogenes in tumor cells is a rational approach toward the development of cancer therapies based on RNA interference (RNAi). Tumors caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) infection are an ideal model system for RNAi-based cancer therapies because the oncogenes that cause cervical cancer, E6 and E7, are expressed only in cancerous cells. We investigated whether targeting HPV...

Oncogenic types of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are major human carcinogens. Cancer cells typically exhibit metabolic alterations which support their malignant growth. These include an enhanced rate of aerobic glycolysis ('Warburg effect') which in cancer cells is often linked to an increased expression of the rate-limiting glycolytic enzyme Hexokinase 2 (HK2). Intriguingly, recent studies ind...

PURPOSE To evaluate carcinogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) mRNA for E6 and E7 mRNA detection on clinical specimens to identify women with cervical precancer and cancer. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN We evaluated a prototype assay that collectively detects oncogenes E6/E7 mRNA for 14 carcinogenic HPV genotypes on a sample of liquid cytology specimens (n=531), masked to clinical data and to the presence...

To investigate the pro-angiogenic factors stimulated by human papillomavirus type 16 E6 and E7 protein in C33A and human fibroblasts. HPV-16 E6 and E7 genes were transfected into C33A and HFB to detect the profiling of angiogenesis-associated factors with the TranSignal angiogenesis antibody array. The mRNA and protein levels of the cytokines were examined by traditional RT-PCR and Western blot...