Genital human papillomavirus type 68a (HPV-68a), related to the potentially oncogenic HPV-39
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1. Purified human papillomavirus (HPV) 68 DNA deposited at C.N.C.M. (Collection Nationale de Culture de Microorganisms) under Accession No. I-1540.
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Abstract
The genomes of two novel human papillomavirus (HPV) types, HPV68 and HPV70, were cloned from a low grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and a vulvar papilloma, respectively, and sequenced. Both types are related to HPV39, a potentially oncogenic virus. HPV68 and HPV70 were also detected in genital intraepithelial neoplasia from three patients and one patient, respectively. Comparison with sequence data in the literature indicates that the subgenomic ME180-HPV DNA fragment, cloned from a carcinoma cell line, corresponds to an HPV68 subtype and that several HPV DNA fragments amplified by PCR from genital neoplasia represent worldwide distributed variants of HPV68 and HPV70.
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- 1. Purified human papillomavirus (HPV) 68 DNA deposited at C.N.C.M. (Collection Nationale de Culture de Microorganisms) under Accession No. I-1540.
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2. Purified human papillomavirus (HPV) 68 DNA sequence, which is selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:
- 12 and SEQ ID NO;
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- 12 and SEQ ID NO;
- 3. A purified HPV-68a nucleotide sequence encoding a protein, wherein said protein is selected from the group consisting of L1, L2, E6, and E7.
- 11. A process for producing cloned recombinant human papillomavirus DNA, wherein the process comprises cloning a vector in a host cell, wherein said vector comprises a human papillomavirus 68 DNA deposited at C.N.C.M. (Collection Nationale de Culture de Microorganisms) Under Accession No. I-1540.
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