Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) target the stratified epidermis, and can causes diseases
ranging from benign condylomas to malignant tumors. Infections of HPVs in the genital tract …

Malignant transformation from mortal, normal cells to immortal, cancer cells is generally
associated with activation of telomerase and subsequent telomere maintenance. A major …

Animal papillomaviruses are widely used as models to study papillomavirus infection in
humans despite differences in genome organization and tissue tropism. Here, we have …

Papillomaviruses cause warts and proliferative lesions in skin and other epithelia. In a
minority of papillomavirus types ('high risk', including human papillomaviruses 16, 18, 31 …

The long control region (LCR) and the E2 protein of human papillomaviruses (HPV) are the
most important viral factors regulating transcription of the viral oncogenes E6 and E7 …

Cervical carcinomas are most frequently associated with human papillomaviruses (HPV),
whose E6 and E7 oncogenes products induce cellular immortalization. The papillomavirus …

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) E2 proteins are the major viral regulators of transcription and
replication during the viral life cycle. In addition to these conserved functions, we show that …

Human Papillomaviruses (HPV) cause widespread infections in humans, resulting in latent
infections or diseases ranging from benign hyperplasia to cancers. HPV-induced …

The papillomavirus (PV) E2 proteins have been shown to exert many functions in the viral
cycle including pivotal roles in transcriptional regulation and in viral DNA replication …

Abstract Bovine papillomavirus type 12 (BPV-12, putative type BAA1) was detected in
epithelial papilloma located on the tongue of an infected cow. Then, the whole genome was …