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Hypermutation in the E2 gene of human papillomavirus type 16 in cervical intraepithelial neoplasia
Author(s) -
Kukimoto Iwao,
Mori Seiichiro,
Aoyama Satoru,
Wakae Kousho,
Muramatsu Masamichi,
Kondo Kazunari
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of medical virology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1096-9071
pISSN - 0146-6615
DOI - 10.1002/jmv.24215
Subject(s) - somatic hypermutation , biology , cervical intraepithelial neoplasia , virology , gene , carcinogenesis , cervical cancer , cytidine deaminase , apobec , genetics , microbiology and biotechnology , genome , cancer , antibody , b cell
Persistent infection with oncogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) causes cervical cancer. However, viral genetic changes during cervical carcinogenesis are not fully understood. Recent studies have revealed the presence of adenine/thymine‐clustered hypermutation in the long control region of the HPV16 genome in cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) lesions, and suggested that apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide‐like (APOBEC) proteins, which play a key role in innate immunity against retroviral infection, potentially introduce such hypermutation. This study reports for the first time the detection of adenine/thymine‐clustered hypermutation in the E2 gene of HPV16 isolated from clinical specimens with low‐ and high‐grade CIN lesions (CIN1/3). Differential DNA denaturation PCR, which utilizes lower denaturation temperatures to selectively amplify adenine/thymine‐rich DNA, identified clusters of adenine/thymine mutations in the E2 gene in 4 of 11 CIN1 (36.4%), and 6 of 27 CIN3 (22.2%) samples. Interestingly, the number of mutations per sample was higher in CIN3 than in CIN1. Although the relevance of E2 hypermutation in cervical carcinogenesis remains unclear, the observed hypermutation patterns strongly imply involvement of APOBEC3 proteins in editing the HPV16 genome during natural viral infection. J. Med. Virol. 87:1754–1760, 2015 . © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.