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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 277, Issue 28, Pages 25576-25582Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M201884200
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Infection with high-risk human papillomaviruses (HPV) can lead to the development of cervical carcinomas. This process critically depends on the virus-encoded E6 and E7 oncoproteins, which stimulate proliferation by manipulating the function of a variety of host key regulatory proteins. Here we show that both viral proteins dose-dependently interfere with the transcriptional activity of NF-kappaB. A variety of experimental approaches revealed that a fraction of the E7 proteins is found in association with the IkappaB kinase complex and attenuates induced kinase activity of IkappaB kinase alpha (IKKalpha) and IKKbeta, thus resulting in impaired IkappaBalpha phosphorylation and degradation. Indirect immunofluorescence shows that E7 impairs TNFalpha-induced nuclear translocation of NF-kappaB, thus preventing NF-kappaB from binding to its cognate DNA. While E7 obviates IKK activation in the cytoplasm, the E6 protein reduces NF-kappaB p65-dependent transcriptional activity within the nucleus. We suggest that HPV oncogene-mediated suppression of NF-kappaB activity contributes to HPV escape from the immune system.
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