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SUBMITTER: Barreto DM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6300001 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Barreto Débora M DM Barros Gerlane S GS Santos Lucas A B O LABO Soares Rosilene C RC Batista Marcus V A MVA
BMC genomics 20181219 1
<h4>Background</h4>Bovine papillomavirus (BPV) belongs to the Papillomaviridae family and infects epithelial cells of bovines and closely related animals, causing hyperproliferative lesions known as warts or papillomas, which may regress or progress to form benign or malignant tumors. The virus enters the host cell and interacts with it by altering the regulation of genes that are responsible for controlling the cell cycle, thus triggering lesion formation. It is not yet known which host genes a ...[more]