Journal of Virology, August 2001, p. 7198-7201, Vol. 75, No. 15
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.15.7198-7201.2001
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Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109,1, and Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 981952
Received 20 February 2001/Accepted 11 May 2001
Human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV-16) E6 activates telomerase specifically in epithelial cells. The oncogene c-myc has also been shown to activate telomerase in several cell types. Here we show that while both HPV-16 E6 and c-myc require intact E boxes to transactivate the hTERT promoter, E6 does not induce hTERT transcription simply by inducing expression of c-myc. Moreover, hTERT transactivation by HPV-16 E6 correlates with its ability to bind the cellular E6-associated protein (E6AP), suggesting that E6 and E6AP may target a regulator of hTERT expression.
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