Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5586902 | Cytokine | 2017 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Human Papilloma Viruses (HPVs) are the causative agents of cervical cancer although other types of cancers are associated with HPV infection. Type I Interferons can interfere with HPV E6- and/or E7-dependent transformation and can affect microRNA (miRNA) expression. Cancer cells show a specific pattern of miRNA expression and HPVs are able to modulate miRNAs expressed in infected cells. Keratinocytes transduced with E6 and E7 from mucosal HPV-16 or cutaneous HPV-38 (K16 and K38) were studied to analyze the involvement of HPV oncoproteins in the anti-proliferative activity of IFN-β. In view of our previous data showing senescence induction by the cytokine in K38 cells, we observe that IFN-β treatment leads to p53-indipendent apoptosis in K16 cells whereas induces senescence in K16 cells if E6 is silenced and p53 expression is restored. The levels of selected miRNAs, deregulated in K16 and K38 cells, can be modulated by IFN-β when E6 and E7 proteins of HPV-16, but not HPV-38, are expressed.
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Authors
Maria Vincenza Chiantore, Giorgio Mangino, Marco Iuliano, Maria Simona Zangrillo, Ilaria De Lillis, Gabriele Vaccari, Rosita Accardi, Massimo Tommasino, Gianna Fiorucci, Giovanna Romeo,