title: Characterization of a novel genital human papillomavirus by overlapping PCR: candHPV86 identified in cervicovaginal cells of a woman with cervical neoplasia.
abstract: A novel human papillomavirus (HPV), candHPV86, was cloned and characterized from cervicovaginal cells obtained from a 37-year-old Hispanic woman with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 1 (CIN1) using an overlapping PCR technique. Primers were designed by phylogenetic alignment of closely related HPV genomes using the L1 fragment sequence amplified by GP5+/6+. The 7983 bp complete nucleotide sequence of the HPV genome was determined by sequence walking. A basic local alignment sequence tool (BLAST) homology search using the L1 open reading frame demonstrated that this HPV was most closely related to HPVHAN2294 (GenBank, AJ400628; 86% homology) and HPV84 (84% homology). candHPV86 was placed in the HPV genome homology group A3 by phylogenetic analyses. The overlapping PCR technique is applicable for characterizing the complete spectrum and variation of HPVs in a population.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Microbiology & Immunology1, Pediatrics, and Epidemiology & Social Medicine2, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, New York, 10461, USA.
authors.forename: Masanori
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Terai
authors.affiliation: Departments of Microbiology & Immunology1, Pediatrics, and Epidemiology & Social Medicine2, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, New York, 10461, USA.
authors.forename: Robert D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Burk
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001483:Base Sequence; D002584:Cervix Uteri / Q000821:virology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D027383:Papillomaviridae / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000821:virology*; D014621:Vagina / Q000821:virology*