Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8751905 | Virus Research | 2018 | 30 Pages |
Abstract
The HPV-16 E6/E7 bicistronic immature transcript produces 4 mature RNAs: the unspliced HPV-16 E6/E7preâmRNA product and 3 alternatively spliced mRNAs. The 3 spliced mRNAs encode short forms of the E6 oncoprotein, namely E6*I, E6*II and E6^E7. In this study we showed that transfection of C-33A cells with monocistronic constructs of these cDNAs fused to GFP, produced different effects on apoptosis, after the treatment with cisplatin. Transfection of C-33A cells with the full-length E6-GFP oncoprotein resulted in a 50% decrease in cell death, while the transfection with the E6*I-GFP construct showed only a 25% of diminution of cell death, compared to the control cells. Transfection with the E6^E7-GFP or E7-GFP construct had no effect on the number of the apoptotic cells, compared with control cells. Conversely, transfection with the E6*II construct resulted in higher cell death than the control cells. Taken together, these results suggested that E6*I or E6*II, the short forms of HPV-16 E6, displayed opposite effects on cisplatin-induced apoptosis, when transfected in C-33A cells.
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Authors
Carolina E. Vaisman, Oscar Del Moral-Hernandez, Samadhi Moreno-Campuzano, Elena Aréchaga-Ocampo, Raul Bonilla-Moreno, Israel Garcia-Aguiar, Leticia Cedillo-Barron, Jaime Berumen, Porfirio Nava, Nicolas Villegas-Sepúlveda,