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SUBMITTER: Yuan H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4030597 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yuan Hang H Myers Scott S Wang Jingang J Zhou Dan D Woo Jennifer A JA Kallakury Bhaskar B Ju Andrew A Bazylewicz Michael M Carter Yvonne M YM Albanese Christopher C Grant Nazaneen N Shad Aziza A Dritschilo Anatoly A Liu Xuefeng X Schlegel Richard R
The New England journal of medicine 20120901 13
A patient with a 20-year history of recurrent respiratory papillomatosis had progressive, bilateral tumor invasion of the lung parenchyma. We used conditional reprogramming to generate cell cultures from the patient's normal and tumorous lung tissue. Analysis revealed that the laryngeal tumor cells contained a wild-type 7.9-kb human papillomavirus virus type 11 (HPV-11) genome, whereas the pulmonary tumor cells contained a 10.4-kb genome. The increased size of the latter viral genome was due to ...[more]