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11 - Viral Carcinogenesis Flashcards

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What causes cancer

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  • Viruses / bacteria
  • Some chemicals
  • Radiation
  • Influenced by heredity, diet and hormones
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How do viruses cause cancer

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Virus inserts and changes genes for cell growth

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Virus replication cycle

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  • Virus attached to cell
  • Virus penetrates cells membrane and injects nucleic acid into cell
  • Viral nucleic acid replicates using host cellular machinery
  • New viral nucleic acids are packaged into viral particles and released from cell
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Viruses

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  • Non-living
  • Cannot reproduce or produce protein without a host cell
  • Do not undergo cell division
  • Lab growth is only possible in animals, embryonated chicken eggs, or cell/tissue cultures systems
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What does a complete virus particle (virion) typically consist of

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  • Genome and capsid (make up nucleocapsid)
  • Membrane and ligands (makes up envelope)
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Capsid

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Composed of capsomeres

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Membrane

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Host cell derived

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Ligands

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Glycoprotein complex

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Features of virus

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  • Small size (10-300 nm)
  • DNA or RNA genome (ds or ss)
  • Helical, polyhedral or complex shape
  • Envelope or no envelope
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Helical Viruses

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Nucleic acid core is surrounded by hollow cylinder of protein (capsid) that is wrapped around it for form helical

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Polyhedral Viruses

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The nucleic acid core is
surrounded by a polyhedral (usually icosahedral) capsid

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Binal / Complex Viruses

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Capsid is irregularly shaped or complex in structure

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Oncovirus

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  • Virus that can cause cancer
  • Currently 7
  • ~12% of human cancers are caused by infections
  • Second most important risk factor for cancer development after tobacco
  • FIrst human oncovirus identified was EBV
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Examples of oncoviruses

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  • HBV
  • HCV
  • HPV
  • EBV
  • Herpes virus 8 (Karposi’s sarcoma)
  • HIV-1
  • HTLV-1
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Where do DNA tumour viruses replicate

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Nucleus

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Where do RNA tumour viruses replicate

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Cytoplasm

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Main difference between normal viruses and oncoviruses

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  • Normal virus cycle is lytic
  • Oncovirus cycle is latent
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Lytic cycle

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Once virus has invaded the cell, they replicate their genome and package into protein, then lyse the cells to release progeny to continue their infectious life cycle

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Steps of latent life cycle

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Virus infects cell –> Viral genome integration into host genome –> transformation

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Latent life cycle

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  • Some virus-specific proteins expressed (early functions) but no mature virus formed
  • Viral structural proteins are not expressed
  • Sometimes latency may terminate (cells must be infected by complete viurs
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Transformation

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  • Ability to form tumours
  • Viral genes interfere with control of cell replication and other aspects of cell phenotype
  • Both DNA and RNA tumor viruses can transform cells
  • Similar mechanisms of transformation by each type of tumor virus
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Other aspects of cell phenotype viral genes interfere with

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  • Loss of growth control
  • Reduced adhesion
  • Motility
  • Invasion
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Life cycle of viruses with dsDNA genomes

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  • Introduction of nucleocapsid into cell
  • Uncoating of viral DNA
  • Translocation into nucleus
  • Replication by cellular DNA polymerases OR transcription by cellular RNA polymerase 2
  • Encapsidation of progeny DNA in viral proteins OR translation by cellular ribosomes
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Proto-oncogenes

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  • Positive growth regulators present in normal, healthy cells
  • 803 human proto-oncogenes have been identified
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Oncogenes

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  • Gene that has the potential to transform a normal cell into a malignant cell
  • Has been altered or mutated from its original form (the proto-oncogene)
  • Oncogene transmitted by virus is known as viral oncogene
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Examples of oncogenes

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  • MYC
  • RAS
  • HER2
  • EGFR
  • Bcr-Abl
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Oncogene activation

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  • Activation of endogenous retroviral (ERV) genomes
  • Proto-oncogenes can be activated by genetic changes
    affecting either protein expression or structure (e.g. gene amplification, viral insertion, chromosomal translocations)
  • ERVs also activated by environmental mutagens
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How much of the human genome derives from endogenous retroviral genomes

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8%

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Tumour suppressor genes

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  • Controllers of cellular proliferation
  • Responsible for maintaining a healthy cell
  • Regulate cell cycle, apoptosis and genomic stability
  • Negative growth regulator (proto-oncogene is positive growth regulator)
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Examples of tumour suppressor genes

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  • p53
  • Retinoblastoma protein
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p53

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  • In a normal cell p53 is inactivated by its negative regulator, mdm2.
  • Upon DNA damage or other
    stresses, p53 will induce cell
    cycle arrest to allow either
    repair and survival of the cell
    or apoptosis to discard the
    damaged cell
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Which virus caused 10% of human cancer

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HPV (cervical, vulval, uterine)

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HPV

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  • 150+ HPV serotypes known to infect humans (skin and mucosa)
  • Transmitted by sexual or close contact
  • Infect skin epithelial cells and mucous membranes
  • Non-enveloped, icosahedral circular dsDNA viruses
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HPV 6 & 11

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Warts (benign)

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HPV 16 & 18

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Cancer

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E5, E6, E7

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  • Oncoproteins
  • E6 and E7 genes code for proteins that inactivate p53 and Rb)
  • E5 onco-protein interacts with EGF-R1 signaling pathways and pro-apoptotic proteins to affect cellular transformation
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L1 gene

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  • Codes for a protein that self assembles into capsid of virus
  • Empty L1 capsid form VLPs which are used in vaccines
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LCR

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  • Long control region
  • Early E non structural genes and late structural capsid genes
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EGF-R1 signalling pathways

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MAP kinase and PI3K/Akt

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HPV genome

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  • 8 kb, encoding 9 genes
  • E1, E2, E4, E5, E6, E7, L1, L2, LCR
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L2

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  • Minor capsid component and lacks the capacity to form VLPs
  • Co-assembles with L1 into VLPs, enhancing their assembly.
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HPV life cycle

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  • Infects the keratinocytes in basal layers of a stratified squamous epithelium
  • Tightly regulated by keratinocyte differentiation
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Disease progression of HPV

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  • Persistent infection can cause irreversible changes leading to invasive cancer
  • Other co factors important in progression (e.g. smoking, age at first intercourse, genetics, contraception use)
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L/GSIL

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Low/High grade squamous intraepthielial lesion

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CIN

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Cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia

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Main way of preventing cervical cancer

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Regular screening (instead of pap test)

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Examples of HPV Vaccines

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  • Cervirax (bivalent)
  • Gardasil (quad-valent)
  • Both protec against HPV 16, 18)
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What does gardasil 9 protect against

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  • Serotypes 16 and 18 (two types that cause the majority of HPV-related cancers)
  • The five next most common HPV types associated with cervical cancer (serotypes 31,
    33, 45, 52 and 58)
  • Two non-cancer-causing HPV types (serotypes 6 and 11), which cause 90% of genital warts.
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Epstein Barr Virus (EBV)

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  • Virus of herpes family (herpesvirus 4)
  • One of the most common viruses in humans (glandular fever / mononucleosis)
  • Infects B cells and epithelial cells
  • Infection occurs by oral transfer of saliva
  • Complex virus
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Diseases associated with EBV

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  • Burkitt’s lymphoma
  • Hodgkin’s lymphoma
  • Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
  • B cell lymphoma
  • Duncans syndrome
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How is EBV diagnosed

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EBER in situ hybridisation in formalin fixed tissue section

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Burkitt’s lymphoma

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  • EBV induces chromosomal translocation of chromosome 8 and 14
  • Break in chromosome 14 at q32
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Theory 1 of malarial infection and EBV

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  • BL correlates roughly with malaria infection in Africa
  • Malaria infection induces B-cell activation, predisposing B cells to acquisition of IG/MYC translocations.
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Theory 2 of malarial infection and EBV

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  • Malaria infection reactivates latent (endemic) EBV infection in memory B cells.
  • Inducing proliferation of B cells and increase probability of IG/MYC translocations
  • EBV inhibits the apoptosis of
    premalignant tumor cells,
    allowing transforming events to occur
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TCF-3

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Rendered constitutively active in Burkitt lymphoma by two related mechanisms

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Two related mechanism of TCF-3

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  1. Somatic mutations that inactivate its negative regulator ID3,
  2. Somatic mutations in TCF-3 that block the ability of ID3 to bind and interfere with its activity as a transcription factor.
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