Liver Cancer (Pathogenesis)
HPV-16 E6 Implicated in Liver Cancer
Published in Hepatitis Weekly, November 29th, 1999
Infection by hepatitis B virus of a cell already infected with other viral species or vice versa has been suggested as being involved in hepatocellular carcinoma.
Using the CAT assay method, researcher D.H. Lee and colleagues from Seoul National University, South Korea, investigated the interactive roles of HBx and potentially oncogenic and transactivating viral early proteins such as Ad5 E1A, HPV-16 E6, and SV40 T ag ("The Synergistic Transactivation of the Hepatitis B Viral (HBV) Pregenomic Promoter by the E6 Protein of Human Papillomavirus Type 16 [HPV-16 E6]...
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