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Transcriptional activity of the long control region in human papillomavirus type 33 intratype variants

BACKGROUND: High-risk human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are responsible for the development of cervical and other anogenital cancers. Intratype sequence variants of certain high-risk HPV types (e.g. 16, 18 and 31) are thought to have different oncogenic potential, partly due to nucleotide sequence varia...

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Autores principales: Gyöngyösi, Eszter, László, Brigitta, Szalmás, Anita, Kónya, József, Veress, György
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10353102/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37461035
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12985-023-02114-y
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author Gyöngyösi, Eszter
László, Brigitta
Szalmás, Anita
Kónya, József
Veress, György
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László, Brigitta
Szalmás, Anita
Kónya, József
Veress, György
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description BACKGROUND: High-risk human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are responsible for the development of cervical and other anogenital cancers. Intratype sequence variants of certain high-risk HPV types (e.g. 16, 18 and 31) are thought to have different oncogenic potential, partly due to nucleotide sequence variation in the viral long control region (LCR). The LCR has an important role in the regulation of viral replication and transcription. The purpose of this study was to explore sequence variation in the LCR of HPV 33 intratype variants in Hungary and to see whether there are differences in the transcriptional activities of the variants. METHODS: The complete HPV 33 LCR was amplified from HPV 33 positive cervical samples. After sequencing the LCR variants, multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetic analyses were carried out. Representative HPV 33 LCR sequence variants were selected for cloning and functional analysis. After transient transfection of HeLa cells, luciferase reporter assays were used to analyse the transcriptional activities of different LCR variants. RESULTS: Altogether 10 different variants were identified by sequence analysis of the HPV 33 LCR. The results of phylogenetic analysis showed that 3 variants belonged to sublineage A1, while the other 7 variants clustered with sublineage A2. Variants belonging to sublineage A2 had significantly lower transcriptional activities than variants belonging to sublineage A1. Within sublineage A2, the two variants analysed had significantly different transcriptional activities, which was shown to be caused by the A7879G variation. CONCLUSIONS: Nucleotide variation in the HPV 33 LCR can result in altered transcriptional activity of the intratype variants. Our results can help to understand the correlation between LCR polymorphism and the oncogenic potential of HPV 33 variants.
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spelling pubmed-103531022023-07-19 Transcriptional activity of the long control region in human papillomavirus type 33 intratype variants Gyöngyösi, Eszter László, Brigitta Szalmás, Anita Kónya, József Veress, György Virol J Research BACKGROUND: High-risk human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are responsible for the development of cervical and other anogenital cancers. Intratype sequence variants of certain high-risk HPV types (e.g. 16, 18 and 31) are thought to have different oncogenic potential, partly due to nucleotide sequence variation in the viral long control region (LCR). The LCR has an important role in the regulation of viral replication and transcription. The purpose of this study was to explore sequence variation in the LCR of HPV 33 intratype variants in Hungary and to see whether there are differences in the transcriptional activities of the variants. METHODS: The complete HPV 33 LCR was amplified from HPV 33 positive cervical samples. After sequencing the LCR variants, multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetic analyses were carried out. Representative HPV 33 LCR sequence variants were selected for cloning and functional analysis. After transient transfection of HeLa cells, luciferase reporter assays were used to analyse the transcriptional activities of different LCR variants. RESULTS: Altogether 10 different variants were identified by sequence analysis of the HPV 33 LCR. The results of phylogenetic analysis showed that 3 variants belonged to sublineage A1, while the other 7 variants clustered with sublineage A2. Variants belonging to sublineage A2 had significantly lower transcriptional activities than variants belonging to sublineage A1. Within sublineage A2, the two variants analysed had significantly different transcriptional activities, which was shown to be caused by the A7879G variation. CONCLUSIONS: Nucleotide variation in the HPV 33 LCR can result in altered transcriptional activity of the intratype variants. Our results can help to understand the correlation between LCR polymorphism and the oncogenic potential of HPV 33 variants. BioMed Central 2023-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10353102/ /pubmed/37461035 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12985-023-02114-y Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Gyöngyösi, Eszter
László, Brigitta
Szalmás, Anita
Kónya, József
Veress, György
Transcriptional activity of the long control region in human papillomavirus type 33 intratype variants
title Transcriptional activity of the long control region in human papillomavirus type 33 intratype variants
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title_fullStr Transcriptional activity of the long control region in human papillomavirus type 33 intratype variants
title_full_unstemmed Transcriptional activity of the long control region in human papillomavirus type 33 intratype variants
title_short Transcriptional activity of the long control region in human papillomavirus type 33 intratype variants
title_sort transcriptional activity of the long control region in human papillomavirus type 33 intratype variants
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10353102/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37461035
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12985-023-02114-y
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