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Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Im Neuenheimer Feld-242, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
The low-risk human papillomavirus type 2a (HPV2a) has been found associated with benign skin epithelial tumors and has only been very rarely identified in malignized epithelia. Here we report the identification of the E5 gene of HPV2a and demonstrate that the protein is mainly expressed in the Golgi apparatus of transfected cells, similar to the known high-risk types E5 proteins. Further, we present experimental evidence demonstrating that HPV2a E5, similar to HPV16 E5, is able to modulate EGF-mediated erk1/2 MAP kinase activation and to down-regulate the expression of MHC class I molecules at the plasma membrane. Thus, the E5 gene of at least one cutaneous low-risk HPV type displays similar biological characteristics to those described for the high-risk type HPV16.
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