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- Title
Replication and Assembly of Human Papillomaviruses.
- Authors
Conway, M. J.; Meyers, C.
- Abstract
Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are small dsDNA tumor viruses, which are the etiologic agents of most cervical cancers and are associated with a growing percentage of oropharyngeal cancers. The HPV capsid is non-enveloped, having a T=7 icosahedral symmetry formed via the interaction among 72 pentamers of the major capsid protein, L1. The minor capsid protein L2 associates with L1 pentamers, although it is not known if each L1 pentamer contains a single L2 protein. The HPV life cycle strictly adheres to the host cell differentiation program, and as such, native HPV virions are only produced in vivo or in organotypic "raft" culture. Research producing synthetic papillomavirus particles--such as virus-like particles (VLPs), papillomavirus-based gene transfer vectors, known as pseudovirions (PsV), and papillomavirus genome-containing quasivirions (QV)--has bypassed the need for stratifying and differentiating host tissue in viral assembly and has allowed for the rapid analysis of HPV infectivity pathways, transmission, immunogenicity, and viral structure.
- Subjects
PAPILLOMAVIRUSES; CANCER risk factors; ORAL cancer; PHARYNGEAL cancer; CELL differentiation; GENETIC transformation
- Publication
Journal of Dental Research, 2009, Vol 88, Issue 4, p307
- ISSN
0022-0345
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0022034509333446